"No one objects to a lawyer looking up a legal case during a trial. Why should students not be permitted to look up an answer during an exam?" Identify the fallacy that applies to this example.
A) None of the answers are correct
B) The fallacy of hasty generalization
C) The slippery-slope fallacy
D) The weak analogy fallacy
E) The fallacy of appeal to ignorance

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The argument compares two situations (a lawyer looking up a case during a trial and a student looking up an answer during an exam) that are not sufficiently similar to warrant the analogy. The contexts, purposes, and implications of these actions are different, making the analogy weak and the comparison flawed.

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