Asked by Avery Williams

Which logical fallacy is used in the text?
How can I be expected to do my homework when billions of people around the world are throwing their plastic water bottles away without recycling them?
A. red herring: the use of a completely unrelated topic or idea
B. circular reasoning: an argument that supports a claim with the claim itself
C. appeal to nature: the assumption that natural things are always good

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
A. red herring.

The speaker is diverting attention from the issue of doing homework by bringing up an unrelated global waste problem. It distracts from the original question rather than addressing whether they should do their homework.