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Question

We should not serve desserts in the school cafeteria. If we offer desserts, students may stop choosing healthy foods in the cafeteria. They will expect to eat junk food and dessert for lunch every day, and their eating habits may get worse at home as well.
What type of fallacious reasoning does this argument use?

(1 point)
Responses

red herring
red herring

false analogy
false analogy

slippery slope
slippery slope

appeal to authority

Answer 1

The argument uses slippery slope reasoning. It suggests that offering desserts will lead to a series of negative consequences, such as students abandoning healthy foods and worsening their eating habits at home, without providing evidence that this progression will necessarily occur.