There has been a controversy surrounding Starbucks and their holiday season cups. Last year, Starbucks made these cups all cheerful and full of Christmas Ornaments and they got loads criticism for them. This year, they made them plain red and got even more criticism from the public for this. Starbucks just can't seem to find a break when it comes to their cup designs. All of the accusations about Starbucks's cups are based on people's opinions and value assumptions. Both of these things make an argument weak but despite these weak arguments, supports have made a controversy out of nothing. In reality, Starbucks made the holiday theme cups because it was the holiday season and didn't have any intentions behind them. Also the arguments against the Starbucks cups all have the same fallacy and that fallacy is Hasty Conclusion. The people against holiday-themed cups create a bad essence with the cups because they based their arguments on only what they saw and rushed to a conclusion about the meaning behind the cups. I believe that Starbucks is innocent in their intentions and mean no harm by decorated cups or plain red cups.
The most ridiculous part to the whole situation is that we are talking about a cup. People are acting as if Starbucks has added a religious symbol onto their logo. We are talking about a simple cup, but some people just seem to have negative connotations with the red cup. This makes them blow things out of proportion and make a huge deal out of nothing.
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