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:: Guilt By Association assumes that two separate things share a negative factor because they share a different, unrelated factor. (See also [[Stop Being Stereotypical]], [[Don't Shoot the Message]])
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* Equating complex calendars with human sacrifice because the ancient Aztecs had a complex calendar, and also practiced human sacrifice.
* Stalin is sometimes used by religious conservatives to prove that atheism is bad.
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==== '''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_Hitlerum Reductio ad Hitlerum]''' ====
:: A very common form of Guilt by Association is "Hitler did it, therefore it's bad." While persuasive, it's not always true, since while Hitler did a lot of evil things, he also was a massive advocate of animal rights (well, definitely more so than Jewish, gay, or Gypsy rights...), built motorways, painted pictures, hosted the Olympics, [[Hitler Ate Sugar|ate sugar]], and breathed oxygen. This is related to the Fallacy of Division, since it assumes the evilness of the whole of Hitler also applies to any part of Hitler. Related to [[
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