Causal slippery slope-fairness slippery slope
Identify the following fallacies. Choose the correct answer from the following list.
1. causal slippery slope 2. fairness slippery slope 3. conceptual slippery slope 4. straw man 5. appeal to unqualified authority 6. appeal to force 7. hasty generalization 8. appeal to ignorance 9. ad hominem 10. appeal to the people 11. fallacy of equivocation 12. begging the question
1. But officer, you wouldn’t arrest me if i drove only one inch left of the center of the lane. And if you wouldn’t arrest me for driving at one place, it wouldn’t be fair to arrest me for deviating just one inch further left. So you shouldn’t arrest me for driving on the wrong side of the road.
2. If two people have sex and know the risks of getting pregnant, then they should do the responsible thing in case the woman gets pregnant and keep the child.
3. People are called mentally ill when they do very strange things, but many so-called eccentrics do things that are just as strange. So there is no real difference between insanity and eccentricity.
