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>The slippery slope fallacy is exactly that: a fallacy. The slippery slope fallacy is only a fallacy when there is no prior evidence of said thing happening in
by RattleyCooper 5y ago
>The slippery slope fallacy is exactly that: a fallacy.
The slippery slope fallacy is only a fallacy when there is no prior evidence of said thing happening in the past.
People who parrot "slippery slope is a fallacy", like in this case, are merely participating in the fallacy of cherry-picking. They're ignoring when slippery slope is not a fallacy and acting like any slippery-slope argument is fallacious when it isn't.