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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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.
Slippery slope arguments argue against a certain proposal based on the fact that this proposal would bring with it a causal chain of events eventually leading to a bad outcome. [ 4 ] [ 9 ] But even if every step in this chain is relatively probable, probabilistic calculus may still reveal that the likelihood of all steps occurring together is ...
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 two arguments imply there is no difference between the exception and the rule, and in fact fallacious slippery slope arguments often use the converse accident to the contrary as the basis for the argument. However, a key difference between the two is the point and position being argued.
Often good faith editors fall into these traps because they fail to recognize the slow, but persistently increasing danger of a slippery slope. For example, editors are allowed to revert vandalism without limitation. But how does one determine if an edit is vandalism, or merely a mistake?