It would be a mistake to provide new gloves to the school's baseball players. In no time the football players will want new equipment. Then the tennis players will want new courts, the hockey players will want a new arena, the swimmers will want a new pool, and the golfers will want their own special course. The costs for these facilities will go through the roof.
A) Composition.
B) Equivocation.
C) Accident.
D) Slippery slope.
E) No fallacy.

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The argument presents a slippery slope fallacy by suggesting that providing new gloves for one team will lead to a never-ending request for expensive facilities by all the other teams. This is an exaggerated and unfounded assumption, and the argument fails to provide evidence to support it.

It Would Be a Mistake to Provide New Gloves to the School's