What is the fallacy where you are rushed into a decision, specifically with the implied threat of “if you don’t make a decision quickly, something bad will happen”? I suppose it’s a subcategory of the appeal to fear, but is there a more specific name?
Appeal to Force might also work
It depends on whether, if you don’t make a decision, something bad IN FACT will happen.
I don’t really see this as a fallacy. Being hasty isn’t a logical fallacy it’s just an imprudent thing to do. Unless someone has a gun to your head and requires you to be hasty. Then it’s not illogical at all.
The sentences in question (changed slightly to prevent easy searching) are “Next year the guy next door is selling some land. You must agree to sell our land before this happens so you get the best price.” However:
- We don’t know that the next-door guy is, in fact, selling land.
- We don’t know that if he does, it will affect the price one way or the other.
- If it does affect the price, we don’t know how–it might be better to sell after.
I posted because the writer frequently uses the same combination of tactics. On her end, she delays and stalls and is secretive, and then she exerts a tremendous amount of pressure on the rest of us to make a decision in a hurry… OR ELSE!
There is certainly the appeal to fear and the appeal to consequences, but neither of these seems to contain that element of time pressure. Perhaps it doesn’t really count, it’s just a manipulative tactic.