Wow I took critical thinking class in college and KNEW that “fallacy “ was bullcrap!!! Thanks for sharing, I felt alone in not being able to wrap my head around how slippery slopes were not slippery or slope like. The other ones, like straw man argument, I agree are fallacies, insidious of them to throw a fake one in there that eventually leads to gun confiscation and murder.
The slippery slope has to do with momentum; when sliding down a slope, your speed grows faster and faster and if there is nothing to stop you, eventually it becomes more difficult to stop you without completely destroying you.
A very clear example of this is the whole "gay rights" movement. People warned about a slippery slope, and people ignored it entirely rather than ensuring the argument was heard, understood and brakes applied.
That momentum kept building and building until "gay rights" involved more than Constitutional equality, but rather inflated social status and entitlement for many, many more groups that were brought under that umbrella -- and the momentum got so fast that it is crashing into obstacles as people turn against them in great numbers.
Philosophy classes nowadays teach that it's a fallacy; that it isn't real and bears no relevance, and any argument talking about it should be dismantled and disregarded entirely because they treat it like some post-war trigger phrase.
Wow I took critical thinking class in college and KNEW that “fallacy “ was bullcrap!!! Thanks for sharing, I felt alone in not being able to wrap my head around how slippery slopes were not slippery or slope like. The other ones, like straw man argument, I agree are fallacies, insidious of them to throw a fake one in there that eventually leads to gun confiscation and murder.
The slippery slope has to do with momentum; when sliding down a slope, your speed grows faster and faster and if there is nothing to stop you, eventually it becomes more difficult to stop you without completely destroying you.
A very clear example of this is the whole "gay rights" movement. People warned about a slippery slope, and people ignored it entirely rather than ensuring the argument was heard, understood and brakes applied.
That momentum kept building and building until "gay rights" involved more than Constitutional equality, but rather inflated social status and entitlement for many, many more groups that were brought under that umbrella -- and the momentum got so fast that it is crashing into obstacles as people turn against them in great numbers.
Philosophy classes nowadays teach that it's a fallacy; that it isn't real and bears no relevance, and any argument talking about it should be dismantled and disregarded entirely because they treat it like some post-war trigger phrase.