7. My son says I should let him go to the Eminem concert on Friday night.But if I start letting him go to concerts and staying out late , he'll start to cut school in the morning;next thing you know, he'll be a dropout, pushed into hanging with the wrong crowd.probably taking drugs with the rest of his buddies. I don't think a concert is worth throwing the rest of his future away for. Fallacy: square

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7. My son says I should let him go to the Eminem concert on Friday night.But if I start letting him go to concerts and staying out late , he'll start to cut school in the morning;next thing you know, he'll be a dropout, pushed into hanging with the wrong crowd.probably taking drugs with the rest of his buddies. I don't think a concert is worth throwing the rest of his future away for. Fallacy: square

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Fallacy: **Slippery Slope**This argument commits the slippery slope fallacy because it takes a single action (going to a concert) and portrays it as the first step in an inevitable chain of negative events, ultimately leading to a disastrous outcome (drug use and dropping out of school), without sufficient evidence to support the likelihood of this chain of events. It assumes that allowing one seemingly harmless activity will inevitably lead to a series of increasingly worse choices.

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