Re:Andy Weir’s Best Seller ‘The Martian’ Gets a Classroom-Fr...
by mikeash on Monday February 27, 2017 @02:12PM
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This is a standard slippery slope argument. Is there evidence that the slope is actually slippery? Do we know that removing swear words leads to ideological censorship?
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Re:Andy Weir’s Best Seller ‘The Martian’ Gets a Classroom-Fr...
by plussed_reader on Monday February 27, 2017 @02:52PM
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I think you can see it in self censoring of kids and adults in modern day conversation.
"The F word." "The N Word." "Eff that." "Effed in the A." "They want the D." "That scene was hot af."
Pick a better word, or demonstrate your lacking vocabulary. But the self-censorship makes one sound like a tool.
You'd get a better reaction saying, 'They want the orange dust-encrusted phallus.'
Re:Andy Weir’s Best Seller ‘The Martian’ Gets a Classroom-Fr...
by abandonliberty on Monday February 27, 2017 @02:16PM
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Sufficient evidence was presented to demonstrate a non-fallacious usage of the slippery slope argument. Simply because it's a slippery slope argument doesn't make it fallacious - though such accusations are very good at silencing.
Perhaps you can provide an example where increases in censorship do not make it easier for the types of problems listed above to occur, a place where the misuse of power is unheard of.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope#Non-fallacious_...