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I think Scott Alexander’s piece on slippery slopes and Schelling fences [1] does a nice job delineating between good- and bad-faith slippery slope arguments. “
by joek1301 5y ago
I think Scott Alexander’s piece on slippery slopes and Schelling fences [1] does a nice job delineating between good- and bad-faith slippery slope arguments.
“Slippery slopes legitimately exist wherever a policy not only affects the world directly, but affects people's willingness or ability to oppose future policies.”
[1] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Kbm6QnJv9dgWsPHQP/schelling-fences-on-slippery-slopes https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Kbm6QnJv9dgWsPHQP/schelling-...
- cataphract 5y agoAnother good reference is Eugene Volokh's "The Mechanisms of the Slippery Slope": https://www2.law.ucla.edu/volokh/slippery.pdf https://www2.law.ucla.edu/volokh/slippery.pdf
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