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> Does everyone really think that if a government bans 4chan, no one and nothing is going to stop them from banning everything else because there's precedent no
by CompanionCuuube 8y ago
> Does everyone really think that if a government bans 4chan, no one and nothing is going to stop them from banning everything else because there's precedent now and nothing can be done?
Is it really, though, or do people just like the strawman fallacy a bit too much?
- krapp 8y ago>or do people just like the strawman fallacy a bit too much? Well, strawmen are often involved in the invocation of slippery slope arguments, so yes, probably.
- CompanionCuuube 8y agoWhoosh. That post was about your strawman. As in the one that was quoted.
- krapp 8y agoNo... I know you thought you were being clever, you just didn't hit the mark. E for effort, though. I didn't invoke any strawman. A slippery slope argument is, by definition, precisely as I described - that a particular degenerative state (be it social, or political) will inevitably be reached starting from some innocent and minor consequence, and that this trend cannot be reversed or corrected for. You know, like falling down a slope that's slippery.
- CompanionCuuube 8y ago> I didn't invoke any strawman. Except in the degenerative state that you talked about. No reasonable person has said that the censoring of this one case would lead to censorship of everything, but that's exactly what you decided on for the degenerative state. > no one and nothing is going to stop them from banning everything else Try to backpedal harder.