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Recent times have shown that the slippery slope is more often rule, than fallacy.
by imwillofficial 4y ago
Recent times have shown that the slippery slope is more often rule, than fallacy.
- alwayslikethis 4y agoIt's only a fallacy when there are no valid reasons to think that the events will actually progress the way you claim they are. In this case, there is a clear government and/or corporate motive in increased data mining and social control, so the only thing restricting them is they need to make people accustomed and not consider it too intrusive in non-totalitarian societies. Things like "contact tracing" or "preventing terrorism" or "think of the children" are among the ways that the powerful actors at the top are convincing the populus that such a measure would be necessary (and beneficial), and the majority of the population does not seem to care much about this to do anything. Hence, it is reasonable to believe that the claimed event (phone being required at some level) is going to happen at some point.
- CamperBob2 4y agoIt's a logical fallacy, which means it's a fallacy when dealing with logical entities. If you run across any of those in the real world, let me know.