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Read the paragraph.

Andy told his sister he would rather volunteer at the youth sports clinic than at the animal shelter. His sister replied, "If a person would rather help people instead of animals all the time, no one will ever volunteer at the animal shelter.”

Which type of logical fallacy best describes the one Andy’s sister has made in the underlined portion of this paragraph?

strawman
bandwagon
slippery slope
hasty generalization

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The correct answer is C. Slippery Slope

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Answer: Slippery slope

Explanation: Fallacies are errors that undermine an argument by weakening it. They can be illegitimate arguments or irrelevant points and are hard to identify.

There are a lot of Logical Fallacies, but for the sentence above, what best describes Andy's sister's argument is Slippery Slope.

Slippery Slope is when a conclusion is made based on the assumptions that if A happens, the logical sequence of events will be B and the consequence to it will be C. In other words, it's a chain reaction with no evidence that any of the statements are true, like in Andy's sister's argument.

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