Causal slippery slope fallacy example“If we decriminalize the recreational use of marijuana, it won’t be long before we’re legalizing all illicit substances. Adults will use drugs casually in the home, allowing children to gain access and become addicts. Widespread drug abuse will lead to a...
However, slippery slope arguments are not always negative or oppositional. It is possible to use a slippery slope argument to argue in favor of a proposition. In this case, they appeal to positive emotions like optimism. For example, “If we give everyone universal basic income, people will t...
Article 1(2) – A Slippery Slope to be Avoided, Especially by Developing CountriesBEPSPartnershipsHybrid EntitiesOECDG20United NationsModel Tax ConventionMultilateral InstrumentArticle 1(2) has been proposed as part of the G20/OECD's Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) project. Two principle ...
For example, Kroger includes a reference to the brand-name product it wants the customer to compare its generic products to. The article you’re reading now also employs Nominative Fair Use in order to reference the USOPC and the OLYMPIC trademarks....
Volokh is a prominent legal scholar and blogger; around 20 years ago, he published an article in theHarvard Law Reviewtitled “The Mechanisms of the Slippery Slope.” VOLOKH: Slippery-slope arguments are an example of something that pretty much everyone, or at least every political side, makes...
When a reference to a study caused uncertainty and concern, for example, it was dropped from subsequent discussions on the grounds that it was not relevant. The report noted that “some participants’ trust in the safety of these techniques is relatively fragile, and easily disrupted by new ...
Slippery slope arguments (SSAs) of the form if A, then C describe an initial proposal (A) and a predicted, undesirable consequence of this proposal (C) (e.
Energy production and consumption in France – including the embodied energy of imports – have grown continuously since 1945, for example. Various energy management have been tried out since the 1990s – even earlier if we consider the anti-waste campaigns of the 1970s – but these policies eit...
Without further ado, I'll give you an example. It's the term "slippery slope", which appeared twice in an article (Is torture ever justified?) in this week's edition (September 22, 2007) of the Economist. It says: One objection to allowing moderate physical pressure is the difficulty ...
The Slippery Slope to National Health Care: A Mandate Forcing Individuals to Purchase Health Insurance Not Only Would Be Impractical, Unenforceable, and Prohibitively Expensive, It Would Represent Yet Another Unconstitutional Breach of the People's Right to Live Free from Onerous Government Regulation ...