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If you thought it was contentious before, just wait until you start lecturing everyone about how they suck at thinking... That's sure going to improve the emoti

• nerdponx 7y ago
  The point isn't to tell people how to think. It helps you think clearly even when everyone around you isn't. And it helps you empathize with, and therefore communicate better with, the people around you.
• wisty 7y ago
  Logical fallacies don't have to be directly stated (unless you're talking to people who can think like adults). You can simply use them as a shortcut to strategies that are likely to work. If someone is making a slippery slope argument, then you can use a standard slippery slop reply.
  • im3w1l 7y ago
    In my experience a lot of slopes are slippery, and a lot of people who cry "slippery slope" are disingenuous; they know the slope is slippery and they want to slide down. As to why slopes are slippery, it may be that it's easy and natural to build political alliances advocating for either side of it, but hard to build an alliance advocating for the middle.