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Nothing, and I mean nothing, has done so much to damage our thinking as the idea of the "Slippery Slope Fallacy", it's allowed people to suggest a self-evidentl
by SuperNinKenDo 4y ago
Nothing, and I mean nothing, has done so much to damage our thinking as the idea of the "Slippery Slope Fallacy", it's allowed people to suggest a self-evidently absurd idea, that precedent does not have any impact on political, socio-cultural, or legal realities, but avoid having to make such a ridiculous assertion nakedly.
Instead, they can hide behind "that's the Slippery Slope Fallacy", and as far as they're concerned, they've invoked a magic incantation, the word "Fallacy", that defeats any and all human reason or experience.
If I had a time-machine, my only goal would be to prevent this noxious, damaging concept, from ever invading the popular culture, it has damaged our thinking far more than it has ever aided it.
- TameAntelope 4y agoYou can’t hate the slippery slope fallacy out of existence; it’s real, it applies here, and it means the argument being put forward, that allowing one thing must mean we allow something similar but worse, is not a valid one. It’s not magic, it’s simply rational. Allowing something doesn’t mean you must then allow something else, that isn’t how it works, and it’s probably more noxious and damaging to society that such a thought is allowed to propagate such as what you’ve written here.
- SuperNinKenDo 4y agoThere's a reason we have the phrase "crossing the Rubicon". You can sneer and say that crossing a river doesn't have anything to do with the fall of the Roman Republic all you like.
- TameAntelope 4y agoNot the same thing, but it does explain your confusion.
- JetAlone 4y agoIt is an ironic image, to think that the development of the idea of a slippery slope fallacy could be itself a slippery slope.