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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?

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false analogy

appeal to authority

slippery slope

red herring
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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
slippery slope

The argument assumes that allowing desserts will inevitably lead to students choosing only junk food and worsening habits, without evidence for that chain of consequences.