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A fallacy committed when words are used to imply a question-begging presumption or evoke an emotional response. For example, the words 'weed' or 'job-creator' are often used as loaded words. The word 'weed' could be used merely to refer to certain plants that grow quickly and disrupts the equilibrium of a habitat, but it is more often used to imply that a plant is a nuisance and should be destroyed. It would be fallacious to presume that all plants we don't like ought to be destroyed because there might be some good many such plants do for the environment. The term 'jobcreator' could be used to merely refer to someone who creates jobs, but it is more often used to refer to wealthy people with the presumption that wealthy people inherently create jobs by their mere existence. It would be fallacious to presume that all wealthy people create jobs merely by existing because it's a contentious issue.

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