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Pressure

Loaded question

Asks a question that smuggles in an unproven assumption.

“Why do you want students to fall behind?”

How to spot it
Any direct answer would concede something you never agreed to.
How to answer it
Reject the premise first, then answer the fair version of the question.
Practise against it

Favoured by The Prosecutor.