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To: Jim from C-Town

http://www.logicalfallacies.info/presumption/slippery-slope/

Slippery slope arguments falsely assume that one thing must lead to another. They begin by suggesting that if we do one thing then that will lead to another, and before we know it we’ll be doing something that we don’t want to do. They conclude that we therefore shouldn’t do the first thing. The problem with these arguments is that it is possible to do the first thing that they mention without going on to do the other things; restraint is possible.

Using logical fallacies is NOT a Conservative value. Using 2, even less so.


53 posted on 06/22/2012 4:48:27 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Guns Walked -- People Died -- Holder Lied -- Obama Golfed (thanks, Secret Agent Man))
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To: freedumb2003; Jim from C-Town; wagglebee; trisham

You’re *logical fallacy* reasoning has no bearing on reality.

If you wish to show that it is indeed a logical fallacy, then instead of providing all kinds of theoretic mumbo-jumbo, why don’t you provide a real life example of something that people predicted would take us down the slippery slope and didn’t?


54 posted on 06/22/2012 6:41:57 PM PDT by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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