> Something taking longer than expected doesn't mean it's a slippery slope. > Whether they were effective or not is orthogonal to whether the slippery slope ar

> Something taking longer than expected doesn't mean it's a slippery slope. > Whether they were effective or not is orthogonal to whether the slippery slope argument is a fallacy. That is wrong. What you mentioned is the very definition of a slippery slope, where the conditional relationships of the hypothetical syllogism do not hold.