In health care debate, a slippery slope to illogicThe anecdotal track record of people making slippery-slopepredictions in the political domain is...RICHARD H THALER
What, then, is the function of slippery slope arguments in moral debate? Do they just point out these obvious facts? No. If that was all they did, then it seems they would be part of every moral assessment. They aren= t. That is because their principal use is to defend the status ...
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.g., “If cannabis is ever legalized, then eventually cocaine will be legalized, too”). Despite SSAs being a common rhetorical device...
and if you raise that value by printing money, they will eventually come down. The government has no business getting into stock valuations. It’s a very slippery slope.
Using slippery slope arguments is often intentional so that the speaker avoids engaging with the issue at hand and instead shifts attention to its extreme hypothetical consequences. By equating the issue with its (hypothetical) negative consequences, the speaker tries to “win” the debate. ...
Walton D. The slippery slope argument in the ethical debate on genetic engineering of humans. Sci Eng Ethics 2016. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih. gov/pubmed/28000092.Walton D. The slippery slope argument in the ethical debate on genetic engineering of humans. Sci Eng Ethics. 2016. https://doi...
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Toward resolving the debate surrounding slippery slope versus licensing behavior: The importance of individual differences in accounting ethical decision makingSlippery slopeLicensing behaviorEthicsA great deal of attention, research and print space has been devoted to the role of the "slippery slope" in...
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Making Them Talk: The Moral Debate ; Some Say 9/11 Justifies Coercion; Others Call That a Slippery Slope