Re:Half of England Is Owned by Less Than 1% of Its Populatio...
by sosborn on Sunday April 21, 2019 @02:42AM
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That doesn’t mean it’s wrong. http://www.fallacyfiles.org/slipslop.html
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Re:Half of England Is Owned by Less Than 1% of Its Populatio...
by toomanyrichies on Sunday April 21, 2019 @04:06AM
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Doesn’t mean it’s right either. Taken from the link you cited:
> One reason why I am skeptical has to do with the difficulty of the causal reasoning needed to establish that a slope really is slippery; most slippery slope arguments make little or no attempt to do this hard work. Moreover, it is difficult even in retrospect to tell whether a slippery slope mechanism has actually been at work.
I see no attempt on the part of the commenter I replied to, to make this kind of effort. And to save them the effort of doing so- even if they had established the presence of a slippery slope, they’d still need to prove it was the causal agent of the consequences they described.
Short of evidence to prove in advance that action A will lead to consequence B, this comes across as scaremongering.