Paper 1 · Logical Reasoning
'If we teach sex education, students will have more sex; then unplanned pregnancies and diseases; then they drop out and never succeed in life.' This indicates which fallacy?
AFalse analogy
BAd hominem
CRed herring ✓ Correct
DIgnoratio elenchi
Correct answer: (C) Red herring — This is treated as a red-herring fallacy, so that is the answer.
Explanation
★This is treated as a red-herring fallacy, so that is the answer.
★The argument piles up alarming consequences far removed from the real issue.
★It diverts attention from whether sex education is useful to a chain of fears.
★By dragging the discussion to catastrophe, it dodges the actual question.
★This distraction from the point is the red herring.
★So the answer is red herring.
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