What is the rhetorical effect of the statement, “A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends…”?

What kind of argument is the following?  Unnecessary killing is always wrong.  Therefore, since euthanasia is always killing that is unnecessary (unlike, for example, killing in self-defense), it is always wrong.

Which statement is inconsistent with the following?Capital punishment unnecessarily takes a human life (a person is killed when they did not need to be killed).  It is always morally wrong to unnecessarily take any human life.  Killing is self defense is not wrong. 

What is the conclusion of the following argument? Why has marriage always meant man and woman? Because other sexual relationships are deviant. Obviously homosexual relationships are deviant; that’s just biological fact. And that’s what the legalization of same-sex marriage would mean: the legal protection of deviant sexual relationships – the legal protection of all sexual relationships, of whatever kind. Why not incest and bestiality too?

Which of the following is not a moral claim?

Sherlock Holmes notices a variety of clues: some cigar ash near the dead body; a size 9 footprint near the corpse; a knife with an “M”engraved on the handle. This leads him to believe that Moriarity is the killer. What kind of argument is Holmes using to reach this conclusion?

Taking an extreme member of an opposition group and treating them as representative of the group as a whole is the fallacy called . . . 

What best describes the fallacy committed in the following passage?Senator Evans thinks teens should be taught about contraception and practicing safe sex. This is what all the advocates of sex ed say. What they really mean is that kids should be able to have sex with no consequences.

Which of the following is not part of the state of affairs (the phenomenon) being explained in the following explanation? Brost has a fever and a terrible cough.  He aches all over.  He looks terrible. He must have the flu.

What is the conclusion of the following argument? Forty-five patients were admitted to Mercy Hospital for pneumonia in December. They were all given standard treatment for pneumonia. After five days, thirty of them were well enough to go home. The other fifteen, however, somehow acquired other infections and were not well enough to be released for fourteen days. The only relevant factor common to these fifteen is that they all stayed in the same ward (different from the ward that the other group stayed in). Seems like the prolonged illness was due to staying in that particular ward.