"If we don't ban Internet porn,the next thing you know,grade school children will be watching smut all day long in their school libraries." Which fallacy is illustrated by this statement

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"If we don't ban Internet porn,the next thing you know,grade school children will be watching smut all day long in their school libraries." Which fallacy is illustrated by this statement

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This statement is an example of a slippery slope fallacy because it suggests that if we don't take drastic action (i.e. banning internet porn), then it will lead to a series of increasingly harmful and extreme consequences (i.e. grade school children watching porn in their school libraries). However, there is no evidence or logical reasoning to support this claim, and it relies on an exaggerated chain of events.

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