Question

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Most people would agree that it would be cruel to snatch a bird from the wild and lock it in a cage, so why are we forcing our children to spend their days indoors? Children need to play outdoors to be happy and healthy, and society needs to make constructing accessible parks and playgrounds a priority.
Which type of logical fallacy does this argument contain?

(1 point)
Responses

false analogy
false analogy

red herring
red herring

appeal to authority
appeal to authority

straw man

Answer 1

false analogy

The argument compares keeping children indoors to snatching a bird from the wild and caging it—an inappropriate/overstated comparison, so it commits a false analogy.