For the following statements, choose between: slippery slope argument; strawman

Question

For the following statements, choose between: slippery slope argument; strawman fallacy; strawman fallacy and slippery slope argument:

1. If you miss the first day of training, you will never catch up. Your career will never get started, and you start to party and drink, and soon you won't be able to pay your rent, and find yourself living under a bridge.

2. You said, 'Legalizing pot was a good idea, because pot could be regulated for quality and taxed.' But I'm opposed to taxation of any kind, and so this idea to legalize pot is just a bad idea.

3. If you are against increasing the minimum wage, then you must think people are not entitled to feed their families. No family can eat well on minimum wage, and so its immoral to want to keep hard working families in poverty.

Explanation / Answer

Slippery slope argument is a consequential argument where one party asserts that a relatively small step will lead to a chain of related events resulting a significant effect (usually negative).

Straw man fallacy is an argument based on erroneous reasoning.

1. Slippery slope argument

2. Straw man fallacy

3 .Straw man fallacy

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