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Re:New York to Ban Natural Gas, Including Stoves, in New Bui... by CardenB on Saturday April 29, 2023 @02:45PM (#35755824)
There’s a difference between “no new construction with gas stoves” and “seizing all gas stoves” lol
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Re:New York to Ban Natural Gas, Including Stoves, in New Bui... by ihatepython on Saturday April 29, 2023 @03:00PM (#35755957)
It's basically the boiling-frog strategy if you can't figure it out
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Re:New York to Ban Natural Gas, Including Stoves, in New Bui... by icehawk on Saturday April 29, 2023 @03:16PM (#35756140)
The boiling frog strategy only works on frogs when the frog's brain is removed.

https://archive.org/details/studiesfrombiol00martgoog/page/3...

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Re:New York to Ban Natural Gas, Including Stoves, in New Bui... by CardenB on Saturday April 29, 2023 @03:01PM (#35755970)
That’s a fallacy. You can make anything into a slippery slope.
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Re:New York to Ban Natural Gas, Including Stoves, in New Bui... by AbrahamParangi on Saturday April 29, 2023 @03:20PM (#35756173)
It seems to me that every time people reference the slippery slope fallacy, the people claiming slippery slope get proven right 10 years down the line. Even in this case, banning gas in new buildings implies that gas will be banned in the future!
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Re:New York to Ban Natural Gas, Including Stoves, in New Bui... by nonethewiser on Saturday April 29, 2023 @05:35PM (#35757451)
It makes no sense to call the slippery slope a fallacy. Some things are a slippery slope, others are not. But it’s not fundamentally impossible to have a slippery slope.
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Re:New York to Ban Natural Gas, Including Stoves, in New Bui... by PM_me_your_math on Saturday April 29, 2023 @04:55PM (#35757104)
No, you're just saying "you can't have a gas stove, gas heater, or gas water heater because we said so."
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Re:New York to Ban Natural Gas, Including Stoves, in New Bui... by nonethewiser on Saturday April 29, 2023 @05:33PM (#35757432)
Read the article. They are t just “debunking” the seizing.
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