This cartoon is a comical way of showing the composition fallacy. This fallacy states that you assumed that one part of something has to be applied to all, or other, parts of it; or that the whole must apply to its parts. In this comic, the little boy makes the statement that something so simple and basic and often through away and not cared for cannot be possible of making something beautiful. Though, even in the real world, we know this to be far from the truth. We see trash made into art on a daily basis. There isn't the phrase "one man's trash is another man's treasure" for no reason. This can be applied to argumentation as well. This is the same as stating, "each brick in the building weighs less than a pound, so the building weighs less than a pound." Ridiculous, right?
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