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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 core of the slippery slope argument is that a specific decision under debate is likely to result in unintended consequences. The strength of such an argument ...
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.
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 ...
“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 ...
Slippery slope (thin edge of the wedge, camel's nose) – asserting that a proposed, relatively small, first action will inevitably lead to a chain of related events resulting in a significant and negative event and, therefore, should not be permitted.
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 ...
Indian River County School Board members stand near the edge of a political slippery slope. ... If a simple 3-2 vote could remove a chair (or vice chair), it could happen on an almost weekly basis ...
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.