"The secretaries have asked us to provide lounge areas where they can spend their coffee breaks. This request will have to be refused. If we give them lounge areas, next they will ask for spas and swimming pools. Then it will be yoga centres and fitness gyms. Expenditures for these facilities will drive us into bankruptcy".
Which fallacy is committed in the above argument?

Correct option is D

The Slippery slope fallacy is committed when an argument assumes that a relatively small action or decision will lead to a chain of negative events without sufficient evidence to support such a sequence. In this case, the request for lounge areas is being denied because of the exaggerated assumption that it will lead to spas, swimming pools, and eventually financial ruin. This line of reasoning doesn’t provide any logical connection between these stages, making it an instance of the slippery slope fallacy.
Information Booster: · Strawman: This fallacy misrepresents someone’s argument in order to refute it more easily. The original position is distorted or simplified, and then the refuted version is attacked.
· Hasty generalization: Involves drawing broad conclusions from a small or unrepresentative sample of evidence.
· Red herring: This fallacy diverts attention from the actual issue by introducing irrelevant information or tangential ideas.