 Kyle writes, hey, Chris, do you need to be in the same room with a person with a black eye in order to know they have a black eye by seeing them on a television screen? Yes, the question is a red herring fallacy. Indulge me. I will. I know what a red herring fallacy is. The best example I can think of of a red herring fallacy is like when a person's being written out a speeding ticket and he says, I don't know why I'm getting a ticket when there are murders and rapists you haven't caught yet.