Scientists grow mice embryos in a mechanical womb

Re:Scientists grow mice embryos in a mechanical womb by carmen_sandiego on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @06:41PM (#26497685)

> The fallacy pertains to people who argue that a causal chain will necessarily play out, or that a particularly implausible chain will play out with high probability.

Isn't this exactly what I described in that comment? I'm confused. Or maybe I was just not clear in my writing. Re-emphasized:

> not all things vaguely similar to previous paths to X result in X, obviously [=> even though some things do]

Also, I didn't really introduce slippery slope as a strict logical fallacy. I said they were making a poor argument and identified it as being of slippery slope form. They responded to that talking about logical fallacies so we went on that tangent, but really I just found their specific instance not credibly inevitable.

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Re:Scientists grow mice embryos in a mechanical womb by hntrader on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @06:59PM (#26497856)

I was just responding to the statement "Slippery slope is considered a fallacy", by saying that slippery slope arguments aren't necessarily fallacious, but it seems you largely agree with that already. I wasn't so much endorsing or commenting on the logic in the original comment.

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