Friendly Reminder: The Death of the Dollar is the Main Event.
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I'd say a scam that is normalized is the slippery slope argument being turned into a philosophical "fallacy" by the intellectual agenda pushers.
It's a scam that many problems stem from.
Many good things have snowballed down a slippery slope that was forewarned and ignored.
Climate change entered more mainstream activist spheres because of smog, oceanic and freshwater pollutants, unnecessary deforestation, etc.
But because there were no checks and balances and everything could be explained or intimidated away, brakes weren't applied when they needed to be.
Same with fiat; fiat was supposed to essentially be a handshake system where it simplified the exchange of funds for goods; a way to turn your work into a wage. It was meant to simplify trade and make it more accessible to people. I believe that it was successful in this regard, but wanton disregard and rampant abuse made it exploitable because the "slippery slope" was explained away.
Public schooling was intended to make education accessible to the masses and provide job opportunities for learned individuals to step up and make themselves available to teach them. As rights were stripped away (forcing and mandating schooling under threat of taking your child away or financial/physical repercussions, or removing school or curriculum choice) people should have raised a bigger stink, but that "slippery slope" kept on bein' slippery and..slopey and now education has become full of money laundering, lobbying, propaganda and shaping the minds of youth for agendas.
I fully believe that the slippery slope argument being propagandized into being known as a fallacy is by far one of the most damaging scams ever perpetrated on the minds of the people, because when it became normalized is when a lot of change has accelerated.
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.