"Some People Advocate Lowering the Drinking Age from Twenty-One to Eighteen

Multiple Choice

"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) None of the answers are correct
C) The fallacy of inappropriate appeal to authority
D) The fallacy of hasty generalization
E) The weak analogy fallacy