Question

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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

appeal to authority
appeal to authority

slippery slope
slippery slope

red herring
red herring

false analogy

Answer 1

slippery slope

The argument assumes that offering desserts will inevitably lead to students always choosing junk food and worsening eating habits — an unsupported chain of increasingly extreme consequences.