It's never a good idea to allow your teenage kids to have a sip of champagne on New Year's Eve. Next you know they'll be drinking beer during TV football games. Then it'll be wine every night at dinner. Then Bloody Marys every morning. Soon they'll be raging alcoholics, and the costs for rehab will be enormous.
A) Complex question.
B) No fallacy.
C) Slippery slope.
D) False cause.
E) Missing the point.

Question

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The argument is using a slippery slope fallacy by suggesting that allowing teenage kids to have a sip of champagne on New Year's Eve will inevitably lead them to becoming raging alcoholics and needing rehab. This is an exaggerated and unlikely scenario, and there is no evidence to support the claim that one sip of champagne will lead to such extreme consequences.

It's Never a Good Idea to Allow Your Teenage Kids