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> Any argument following the slippery slope form - if you choose to do X then you must choose to do Y is fallacious. You have the choice both before X and befor
by pjscott 15y ago
> Any argument following the slippery slope form - if you choose to do X then you must choose to do Y is fallacious. You have the choice both before X and before Y.
Well obviously. That's not the form of the argument here, though. The argument is that, once Tumblr gets used to censoring one view they consider harmful, they're more likely to censor others. The claim being made is not one of logical implication, but of conditional probability.
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- jfoutz 15y agoI agree with the argument you've laid out here, but i don't see that in the original post.