Comment by nlitened
6 days ago
> Slippery slopes are a logical fallacy
How is this a counter-argument? I often read this, as if there's some international trusted organization of logical thinkers that has approved inclusion of slippery slope to a list of logical fallacies that must never be invoked in a conversation.
Every single time five years later it turns out that the slope actually was slippery.
I don't think their comment was meant as a counter-argument.
I read it as a call to action: things only go down the slope if they're pushed that way, so now is the time to try and prevent said push.
That is what I meant, yes.
Why do people imagine that I said words I didn’t say, get mad at those words, then reply as if I had said them? This happens all the time.
Humans are stupid and I sincerely believe that we, as a species, will fail because we are so prone to this kind of behavior. We really are a garbage race.
Everyone who rants about slippery slopes being a fallacy also loves the boiling frog analogy (which technically might be a bit closer to what they're going for).
> Everyone who rants about slippery slopes being a fallacy also loves the boiling frog analogy
I didn’t. So why do you say “everyone”? Stop imagining people saying things that they didn’t actually say.
Every step we take down this “slope” is intentional and happens because there is more force pushing things down the slope than there is force resisting that push. There is no slippage, just people who refuse to act in their own best interests letting people who are acting in their own best interests do whatever they want.