Consider the following scenario: a mother tells her child that if he doesn't do his homework, he will get failing grades.Then he will probably drop out of school and be unable to get a job, so he will become homeless.What type of "Causal Fallacy" is this?
A)Questionable cause
B)Post hoc ergo propter hoc
C)Slippery slope
D)Misidentification of the cause

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This is an example of a slippery slope fallacy because it presents an exaggerated chain of events that are not necessarily inevitable or logically connected. The argument suggests that not doing homework will inevitably lead to dropping out of school, unemployment, and homelessness, when in reality there are many factors that contribute to these outcomes and not doing homework may not be the sole cause.

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