Consumer advocate: Manufacturers of children' s toys often place warnings on their products that overstate the dangers their products pose. Product-warning labels should overstate dangers only if doing so reduces injuries. In fact, however, manufacturers overstate their products' dangers merely for the purpose of protecting themselves from lawsuits brought by parents of injured children. Ttherefore, manufacturers of children' s toys should not overstate the dangers their products pose.
The argument presumes, without providing justification, that if a warning overstates a danger, then the warning will fail to prevent injuries most accurately describes a reasoning flaw in the consumer advocate's argument.