Re:Facebook Indefinitely Suspends Trump
by protonimitate on Thursday January 07, 2021 @12:49PM
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> It's an idiom to succinctly describe a chain of causality.
Right, and the fallacy is that it's being pre-attributed to a sequence of events that hasn't happened yet.
Again, it's a boring argument and adds nothing to the discussion.
Re:Facebook Indefinitely Suspends Trump
by jeremyjh on Thursday January 07, 2021 @12:53PM
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The point is not that one thing never leads to another in this way, but that the possibility of a future slippery slope doesn't support an argument by itself.
Re:Facebook Indefinitely Suspends Trump
by hndudette2 on Thursday January 07, 2021 @12:49PM
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It is absolutely not a fallacy, as Naval Ravikant points out, given the large numbers of slippery slopes that have played out in the historical record. I have no idea why the belief that it is a logical fallacy is so widespread.
Slippery slopes can be shown throughout history. Trump himself has put us on a slippery slope it seems. No, it doesn't matter that some college debate class student included it on a list of debate fallacies on Reddit. It's an idiom to succinctly describe a chain of causality.