Identify the correct fallacy in the following statement: Logic should be banned

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Identify the correct fallacy in the following statement:

Logic should be banned from our colleges. For when people take logic, they begin to think carefully and logically. Then they are less swayed by emotions. Soon they completely eliminate emotions and feelings from their lives. Before you know it they are cold and uncaring, and they become incapable of loving.

Question 5 options:

Slippery Slope

Post Hoc

Begging the question

Red Herring

Ad populum

Slippery Slope

Post Hoc

Begging the question

Red Herring

Ad populum

Explanation / Answer

The correct answer is Option 1. This is an instance of the slippery slope because here, a relatively insignificant event is concluded to have a disastrous outcome.

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