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This internet cliché whereby someone in a debate circle declares something a formal fallacy, and then a million internet commenters turn it into a meme, should
by nostromo 6y ago
This internet cliché whereby someone in a debate circle declares something a formal fallacy, and then a million internet commenters turn it into a meme, should stop.
Slippery slopes can be shown throughout history. Trump himself has put us on a slippery slope it seems. No, it doesn't matter that some college debate class student included it on a list of debate fallacies on Reddit. It's an idiom to succinctly describe a chain of causality.
- hndudette2 6y agoIt is absolutely not a fallacy, as Naval Ravikant points out, given the large numbers of slippery slopes that have played out in the historical record. I have no idea why the belief that it is a logical fallacy is so widespread.
- protonimitate 6y ago> It's an idiom to succinctly describe a chain of causality. Right, and the fallacy is that it's being pre-attributed to a sequence of events that hasn't happened yet. Again, it's a boring argument and adds nothing to the discussion.
- jeremyjh 6y agoThe point is not that one thing never leads to another in this way, but that the possibility of a future slippery slope doesn't support an argument by itself.