"If lawyers develop their cases with help from other lawyers, why can't I write my term paper with help from other students?" What fallacy is being committed in this statement?

a) Appeal to authority
b) Hasty generalization
c) Faulty cause
d) Faulty analogy
e) Ad hominem attack


ANS: d

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