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==Examples==

*"All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?" -– ''[[Monty Python's Life of Brian]]''

:The attempted implication (fallacious in this case) is that the Romans did nothing for them.

* "Our foreign policy has always helped other countries, except of course when it is against our National Interest..."

:The false implication is that their foreign policy always helps other countries.

* "Well, I promise the answer will always be ''yes.'' Unless ''no'' is required." -– ''[[Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa]]''

==See also==