Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form

The State Department's memo is full of misleading and irrelevant arguments. It fails to make the case that the waiver is in the ?national security interest? of the U.S., as required by law. The waiver undeniably undermines efforts to promote justice for human rights crimes in East Timor and real reform in Indonesia.

That Logic has advanced in this sure course, even from the earliest times, is apparent from the fact that, since Aristotle, it has been unable to advance a step, and thus to all appearance has reached its completion.

To be is to do.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.