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Re:Expanded Protections for Children by minsc__and__boo on Thursday August 05, 2021 @08:19PM (#28081765)
Slippery slope has almost always meant a fallacy, because it typically invokes "the sky is falling" examples that have no evidence to support it coming to pass - even here.
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Re:Expanded Protections for Children by skinkestek on Friday August 06, 2021 @02:50AM (#28084044)
While I see the point, "slippery slope is a fallacy" seems to have been abused far more than "slippery slope" on HN over the decade I've hung around here.
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Re:Expanded Protections for Children by minsc__and__boo on Friday August 06, 2021 @12:35PM (#28089517)
That's because nobody makes an argument by starting with "I'm making a slippery slope argument" - it's always identified by someone else. Same with whataboutism, no true scotsman, etc. by their nature.
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Re:Expanded Protections for Children by skinkestek on Friday August 06, 2021 @03:08PM (#28091569)
No, it is because people invoke slippery slope fallacy for actual, real slippery slopes.

The slippery slope fallacy us real - but so are the slippery slopes.

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