"How can we worry about illiteracy rates in the United States when thousands and thousands of children are dying of AIDS and AIDS-related illnesses in other countries?" This statement is an example of which fallacy?

a. Hasty generalization
b. Ad hominem
c. Red herring
d. Bandwagon

c. When we make use of the red herring fallacy, we introduce irrelevant information
into an argument to distract an audience from the real issue. In this example, the speaker turns the
argument away from the problem in her own community and toward the international problem of AIDS.