"slippery slope" is supposed to be a fallacy, I call it "seeing past patterns and extrapolating". Every problem we have as a society came about because of sli

"slippery slope" is supposed to be a fallacy, I call it "seeing past patterns and extrapolating". Every problem we have as a society came about because of slippery slopes. They began from a relatively benign start and progressed organically as entropy, incompetence, and greed pushed it forward to a state that was dangerous or uncontrollable (e.g. politics, environment, criminal justice, etc). The key difference in the author's argument and your counter-examples are that things like "being declared dead" doesn't benefit anyone (unless you were any enemy). Take a look at imminent domain, drug seisures, and for-profit prisons if you want to see how "virtuous and obviously needed power" go on to be used when inevitably someone corrupt or incompetent comes to power. Once you create a lever for the government, it will at the very least go into the playbook of "possible tools to be used for control" (or more popularly, to 'help' people). Kind of how OSHA was the excuse to force all employers to require vaccines. Whether or not you agree with vaccines, can you see that the government thinking went: 1. We have an outcome we want, that is obviously good 2. Stupid citizens aren't complying with the Executive Order 3. How can we make them comply using something we have, and excuse it as "within the legal limits"? 4. Ah! OSHA exists and has broad powers, maybe we can say that we will fine anyone who doesn't have all workers vaccinated $150K per worker per month! That literally happened a couple months ago, so not sure how many more examples you need before "slippery slope" of "people spending 10s of millions to acquire a powerful office want power" is confirmed.