"More people are killed and injured every year in their bathtubs than in Pegasus. I suppose the next thing you will argue is that we should give up bathing." This argument commits the fallacy of
A)appeal to fear.
B)refutation.
C)appeal to ignorance.
D)reducing a claim to absurdity.

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The argument is using reduction to absurdity by suggesting that because more people are injured in bathtubs than in flying on Pegasus, we should not give up flying on Pegasus. This is an illogical argument because the two are not related and do not warrant the same decision.

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