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A slippery slope argument is not necessarily a slippery slope fallacy. Which you should understand after reading the article you linked.
by Etherlord87 2y ago
A slippery slope argument is not necessarily a slippery slope fallacy. Which you should understand after reading the article you linked.
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- aguaviva 2y agoIn this case it plainly is though, if we just think about what they're saying.
- Etherlord87 2y agoPlainly to you, but not to me. What isn't obvious to everyone, isn't really obvious. You didn't care to explain what kind of stopping mechanisms are there, that make it not a slippery slope. Rowan Atkinson gives some nice examples here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUezfuy8Qpc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUezfuy8Qpc I'd say rather than there being *a risk* of descending too low on that slippery slope, we already have plenty of evidence this already happened. I'm from Poland and recently a party in ruling coalition proposed criminalizing hate speech on the Internet. Fortunately, precisely the slippery slope rhetoric, supported by evidence from countries like UK, seems to be enough of a backlash to stop politicians from following such ideas.
- aguaviva 2y agoFor starters -- the commenter wasn't actually suggesting that this kind of content needs to be suppressed. In order to have a slippery slope, you need something to extrapolate from. But the commenter wasn't providing that.
- Etherlord87 2y agoI disagree, it seems what is obvious to you isn't to me and vice-versa so we're unlikely to have anything productive going on here.