Fallacies of Slippery Slope, Jumping to Conclusion, False Dilemma, and Middle Ground

A Slippery Slope Fallacy is a weak argumentation where one asserts that one thing will lead to another without backing up their argument with sufficient proof.It is exaggeration of the outcome or effect based on the initial cause under discussion.
Jumping to Conclusion Fallacy is one where based on a particular event a general picture is painted without sufficient backing.
A False Dilemma Fallacy is one where one is made to believe that there are only two choices and a choice between the only two options is inevitable.
A Middle Ground Fallacy is one where it is argued that both the extremes are not suitable and therefore the middle ground or a moderate view or a compromise is the best decision.
In the Supreme Court decision in the case of The State of Bihar Vs Pavan Kumar & Ors,, Civil Appeal No. 3661-3662 of 2020, the Supreme Court held, ” a total ban on mining, apart from giving rise to illegal activities, also causes huge loss to the public exchequer. A balanced approach of sustainable development ensuring environmental safeguards, needs to be to be resorted to. At the same time, it also cannot be ignored that when legal mining is banned, it gives rise to mushroom growth of illegal mining, resulting in clashes between sand mafias, criminalisation and at times, loss of human lives.” (Refer news article below)
Thus we see that the Supreme Court has indulged in all the four Fallacies as listed above in one single judgement on sand mining.
Total ban on mining leads to illegal mining, huge loss to public exchequer: SC (opinionexpress.in)