Comment by maleldil
20 days ago
If you're always looking at things through that lens, the government can never do anything at all, and you'll be left with "complete freedom" to just die from easily preventable issues.
There's absolutely no need to resort to a slippery slope here. We have plenty of examples around the world for things that work without anyone invoking a boogeyman.
They can, you just have to look at each issue and it's costs and benefits and risks over time. You desperately want to world to be simple. It isn't. There is a slippery slope, you can stand on it but you want to have some concept of what happens when you slip.
There are examples of the boogeyman existing in real life - just 80 years ago we had one of the worst. Right now we have some boogeymen although not Hitler level. Get a little historical perspective.