Which logical fallacy is used in the text?
Don't feed the dog any scraps. Next thing you know, you'll be setting a place for the dog at the dinner table.
A: slippery slope fallacy: the false assumption that a small first step will lead to extreme consequences
B: ad hominem: an attack against the person making the argument, rather than the argument itself
C: false causation: the assumption that because two things happened together, one caused the other
The text argues that feeding the dog table scraps will lead to the dog being served at the table. However, this isn't necessarily true. This argument offers only one extreme and unlikely outcome. This illustrates a type of logical fallacy known as the slippery slope fallacy.