"Some people advocate lowering the drinking age from twenty-one to eighteen. I oppose that. If we lower the drinking age to eighteen, why not sixteen? And if sixteen, why not twelve? Pretty soon, we would have a roomful of drunks in third grade!" Identify the fallacy that applies to this example.
A) The slippery-slope fallacy
B) None of the answers are correct
C) The fallacy of inappropriate appeal to authority
D) The fallacy of hasty generalization
E) The weak analogy fallacy

Question

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The slippery-slope fallacy is present because the argument suggests that lowering the drinking age to eighteen will inevitably lead to an extreme outcome (third graders becoming drunks) without providing evidence for this progression.

"Some People Advocate Lowering the Drinking Age from Twenty-One to Eighteen