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Re:Removing Holocaust Denial Content by latch on Monday October 12, 2020 @11:04AM (#24755096)
This is a logical fallacy, and a bad one as it generally doesn't bear out how you're implying in the real world.
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Re:Removing Holocaust Denial Content by zests on Monday October 12, 2020 @11:08AM (#24755141)
The labeling of "slippery slope" as a "logical fallacy" versus a "consequentialist logical device" is becoming quite the political statement. Check out the history and the talk page of the wikipedia article for slippery slope.

For the record, I disagree that it is a logical fallacy in all cases.

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Re:Removing Holocaust Denial Content by andybak on Monday October 12, 2020 @11:27AM (#24755383)
> For the record, I disagree that it is a logical fallacy in all cases.

Isn't that ambiguous?

You could mean:

> It is not a logical fallacy ever.

or

> It is not always a logical fallacy.

I suspect you mean the latter but some might intepret you as meaning the former.

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Re:Removing Holocaust Denial Content by zests on Monday October 12, 2020 @12:58PM (#24756541)
Yes, I can see how the wording could be confusing. I mean the second interpretation as you suggest.
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