Paper 1 · Logical Reasoning
UGC NET 2022 Political Science (Shift 1)
"The secretaries have asked us to provide lounge areas where they can spend their office breaks. This request will have to be refused. If we give them lounge areas, next they will ask for spas and swimming pools, then yoga centres and fitness gyms, and expenditures for these facilities will drive us into bankruptcy." Which fallacy is committed in the above argument?
AStrawman
BHasty generalization
CRed herring
DSlippery slope ✓ Correct
Correct answer: (D) Slippery slope — The argument assumes one small concession will inevitably cascade into ruinous demands, which is the slippery slope fallacy. Hence option D.
Explanation
★The argument assumes one small concession will inevitably cascade into ruinous demands, which is the slippery slope fallacy. Hence option D.
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