"Some people advocate lowering the drinking age from twenty-one to eighteen. I oppose that. If we lower the drinking age to eighteen, why not sixteen? And if sixteen, why not twelve? Pretty soon, we would have a roomful of drunks in third grade!" Identify the fallacy that applies to this example.
A. The slippery-slope fallacy
B. The fallacy of hasty generalization
C. The fallacy of inappropriate appeal to authority
D. The weak analogy fallacy
E. None of the answers are correct
Answer: A
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