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This 1895 cartoon makes a slippery-slope argument of how weddings would look in 2001 if women got the right to vote. In a slippery slope argument, a course of action is rejected because the slippery slope advocate believes it will lead to a chain reaction resulting in an undesirable end or ends. [1]
The ACLU also sent a letter to Congress on Monday urging lawmakers to vote against the bill. “It is a slippery slope to start with the mandatory, prolonged detention of our longtime residents ...
After gaining final approval in the House by a 75-20 party-line vote, HB 18 now moves to Gov. Andy Beshear's desk for consideration. ... "We are at the top of a very slippery slope when it comes ...
The “slippery slope” refrain was a common one in the Senate hearing Wednesday. ... For example, he said, he would not vote for potential future laws that would extend the six-month requirement.
This sense of slippery slope is deeply embedded in US constitutional law, and the term may well have originated there. There could be some additional coverage of that in this article, and it would satisfy (at least to some extent) requests in an old thread to provide "examples" of when slippery slope is not a fallacy.
Democratic backsliding [a] is a process of regime change toward autocracy in which the exercise of political power becomes more arbitrary and repressive. [7] [8] [9] The process typically restricts the space for public contest and political participation in the process of government selection.
“MPs are voting for the Bill at this stage in the hope that it will be fixed, however, the legislation is framed in a way that means it can’t be changed. ... “This is not some slippery slope ...
The second logical form of the slippery slope argument, referred to as the "arbitrary line" version, [8] argues that the acceptance of A will lead to the acceptance of A1, as A1 is not significantly different from A. A1 will then lead to A2, A2 to A3, and eventually the process will lead to the unacceptable B. [6] As Glover argues, this version ...