An Interactive Guide to Ambiguous Grammar
Affirming the consequent. Jumping to conclusions. Appeal to emotion.<p>Also, there's a reason they use language like this. Namely, say they wrote the sentence you arrived at; what do you think the reaction would be? Riots, right? Violent, righteous riots. Sounds good - up until the mob gets to the hospital and finds the involved officer's partner there being fixed up after getting shot three times in the chest. Feels silly, right? You don't do major things when you don't know what happened. And that's why they use this language: they don't know what happened either, and until they do they're not going to say what happened.<p>Don't jump to conclusions.<p>Finally: <a href="http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage/" rel="nofollow">http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage/</a>