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> Next step is to add your race, then income, then who you voted for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope
by ranger_danger 7mo ago
> Next step is to add your race, then income, then who you voted for
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope
- fsflover 7mo agoFrom your link: > non-fallacious forms of the argument can also exist.[7]: 273–311
- fc417fc802 7mo agoAlso most human communication isn't about formal logical reasoning. It's only a fallacy when applied in the form "A therefore B". We can make all sorts of useful and relevant observations about human and societal behavior that aren't logically rigorous.
- ranger_danger 7mo agoYes they can, but claiming a theoretical future event as fact (or inevitable) I would consider particularly fallacious as it's impossible to prove. And I think history also shows these claims rarely end up happening the way these alarmists think it will. Usually when a slope appears, regulation steps in, technology evolves, or the culture shifts, rather than society devolving into some inescapable dystopian hellscape.
- fsflover 7mo agoGoogle has been following the trend of locking down Android for a decade. The slippery slope is a fact here.
- sophrosyne42 7mo agoA guess for what's next is not a slippery slope argument, let alone a fallacy.
- ranger_danger 7mo agoIt was not phrased as a guess though, but as a "fact" that cannot be proven