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Re:Twitter user sentenced to 150 hours of community service ... by heurisko on Friday April 01, 2022 @07:01AM (#30876957)
There was indeed a slippery slope from "2 weeks to flatten the curve" to extended lockdowns.

I don't think those policies necessarily were a net benefit, either, particularly in the case of mask mandates for children, which weren't shown as effective enough to warrant damaging the mental health of children.

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Re:Twitter user sentenced to 150 hours of community service ... by tonyedgecombe on Friday April 01, 2022 @07:17AM (#30877051)
Something taking longer than expected doesn't mean it's a slippery slope.

Whether they were effective or not is orthogonal to whether the slippery slope argument is a fallacy.

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Re:Twitter user sentenced to 150 hours of community service ... by IncRnd on Friday April 01, 2022 @02:41PM (#30881811)
> Something taking longer than expected doesn't mean it's a slippery slope.

> Whether they were effective or not is orthogonal to whether the slippery slope argument is a fallacy.

That is wrong.

What you mentioned is the very definition of a slippery slope, where the conditional relationships of the hypothetical syllogism do not hold.

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