I’ve actually done a little bit of a dive on the origins of the slippery slope term a while back because I had similar concerns The man credited with creating the term was a modern philosopher (late 1800s-early 1900s) and was one of those working to tear down formal logic and replace it with utter nonsense. Here’s a quote of his that I find particularly abhorrent: https://www.azquotes.com/quote/588466. Slippery slope is a terrible logical fallacy and we should be using the far older and far more sound ‘argument from absurdity’ fallacy.
Its a logical fallacy to rely on it as your only source of opposition to an argument. As part of a multi faceted deconstruction of an argument, though? A-ok. Try not to abuse them though.
Slippery Slope being a fallacy is a subjective term in my opinion. Case in point: Australia tyranny and The LGBTQPedophile movement for "acceptance".
I’ve actually done a little bit of a dive on the origins of the slippery slope term a while back because I had similar concerns The man credited with creating the term was a modern philosopher (late 1800s-early 1900s) and was one of those working to tear down formal logic and replace it with utter nonsense. Here’s a quote of his that I find particularly abhorrent: https://www.azquotes.com/quote/588466. Slippery slope is a terrible logical fallacy and we should be using the far older and far more sound ‘argument from absurdity’ fallacy.
I would agree. 100%
Its a logical fallacy to rely on it as your only source of opposition to an argument. As part of a multi faceted deconstruction of an argument, though? A-ok. Try not to abuse them though.