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.

Question

What type of fallacious reasoning does this argument use?

A. red herring
B. slippery slope
C. false analogy
D. appeal to authority

Answer 1

The argument primarily uses B. slippery slope reasoning. It suggests that allowing desserts in the cafeteria will lead to a series of negative consequences, such as students stopping to choose healthy foods and expecting junk food every day, ultimately affecting their eating habits at home. This type of reasoning assumes that one event will lead to a chain of events without providing evidence that this progression is inevitable.