#slipperyslope — Public Fediverse posts

Europe’s Quiet Acceptance of Euthanasia as Routine Medical Practice

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/europe-euthanasia-quiet-acceptance-structural-cause-of-death/

@Nonilex

"...unless they were able to produce evidence that at least one of their biological parents was a #US #citizen or lawful permanent resident."

So then at what point does #AmyConeyBarrett and the other right-wing #SCOTUS "justices" demand that a #BiologicalParent" was verifiably a biological #Man or a #Woman at birth by their criteria? #SlipperySlope

@Nonilex

"...unless they were able to produce evidence that at least one of their biological parents was a #US #citizen or lawful permanent resident."

So then at what point does #AmyConeyBarrett and the other right-wing #SCOTUS "justices" demand that a #BiologicalParent" was verifiably a biological #Man or a #Woman at birth by their criteria? #SlipperySlope

@Nonilex

"...unless they were able to produce evidence that at least one of their biological parents was a #US #citizen or lawful permanent resident."

So then at what point does #AmyConeyBarrett and the other right-wing #SCOTUS "justices" demand that a #BiologicalParent" was verifiably a biological #Man or a #Woman at birth by their criteria? #SlipperySlope

@Nonilex

"...unless they were able to produce evidence that at least one of their biological parents was a #US #citizen or lawful permanent resident."

So then at what point does #AmyConeyBarrett and the other right-wing #SCOTUS "justices" demand that a #BiologicalParent" was verifiably a biological #Man or a #Woman at birth by their criteria? #SlipperySlope

@Nonilex

"...unless they were able to produce evidence that at least one of their biological parents was a #US #citizen or lawful permanent resident."

So then at what point does #AmyConeyBarrett and the other right-wing #SCOTUS "justices" demand that a #BiologicalParent" was verifiably a biological #Man or a #Woman at birth by their criteria? #SlipperySlope

I will continue to use the slippery slope arguments, for example against AI, as a metaphor.

Literalists - look away now

#slipperyslope #metaphor #literalism #Aislop

ah yes good, another “oh, this is actually happening in the real world and not just a bunch of extremely online fringe crackpots yelling on the internet” moment

‘Disturbing’: Experts troubled by Canada’s euthanasia laws

https://apnews.com/article/covid-science-health-toronto-7c631558a457188d2bd2b5cfd360a867

#MAiD #Euthanasia #SlipperySlope #NoWarButClassWar (and we’re losing)

ah yes good, another “oh, this is actually happening in the real world and not just a bunch of extremely online fringe crackpots yelling on the internet” moment

‘Disturbing’: Experts troubled by Canada’s euthanasia laws

https://apnews.com/article/covid-science-health-toronto-7c631558a457188d2bd2b5cfd360a867

#MAiD #Euthanasia #SlipperySlope #NoWarButClassWar (and we’re losing)

ah yes good, another “oh, this is actually happening in the real world and not just a bunch of extremely online fringe crackpots yelling on the internet” moment

‘Disturbing’: Experts troubled by Canada’s euthanasia laws

https://apnews.com/article/covid-science-health-toronto-7c631558a457188d2bd2b5cfd360a867

#MAiD #Euthanasia #SlipperySlope #NoWarButClassWar (and we’re losing)

ah yes good, another “oh, this is actually happening in the real world and not just a bunch of extremely online fringe crackpots yelling on the internet” moment

‘Disturbing’: Experts troubled by Canada’s euthanasia laws

https://apnews.com/article/covid-science-health-toronto-7c631558a457188d2bd2b5cfd360a867

#MAiD #Euthanasia #SlipperySlope #NoWarButClassWar (and we’re losing)

ah yes good, another “oh, this is actually happening in the real world and not just a bunch of extremely online fringe crackpots yelling on the internet” moment

‘Disturbing’: Experts troubled by Canada’s euthanasia laws

https://apnews.com/article/covid-science-health-toronto-7c631558a457188d2bd2b5cfd360a867

#MAiD #Euthanasia #SlipperySlope #NoWarButClassWar (and we’re losing)

A quotation from Thomas De Quincey

For if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Once begin upon this downward path, you never know where to stop. Many a man has dated his ruin from some murder or other that perhaps he thought little of the time.

Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) English writer, essayist, literary critic
Essay (1839-11), “Second Paper on Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts,” Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 46, No. 289

More about this quote: wist.info/de-quincey-thomas/81…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #escalation #depravity #goingdownhill #thomasdequincey #corruption #crime #downwardspiral #gateway #sin #slipperyslope

A quotation from Thomas De Quincey

For if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Once begin upon this downward path, you never know where to stop. Many a man has dated his ruin from some murder or other that perhaps he thought little of the time.

Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) English writer, essayist, literary critic
Essay (1839-11), “Second Paper on Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts,” Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 46, No. 289

More about this quote: wist.info/de-quincey-thomas/81…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #escalation #depravity #goingdownhill #thomasdequincey #corruption #crime #downwardspiral #gateway #sin #slipperyslope

A quotation from Thomas De Quincey

For if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Once begin upon this downward path, you never know where to stop. Many a man has dated his ruin from some murder or other that perhaps he thought little of the time.

Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) English writer, essayist, literary critic
Essay (1839-11), “Second Paper on Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts,” Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 46, No. 289

More about this quote: wist.info/de-quincey-thomas/81…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #escalation #depravity #goingdownhill #thomasdequincey #corruption #crime #downwardspiral #gateway #sin #slipperyslope

A quotation from Thomas De Quincey

For if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Once begin upon this downward path, you never know where to stop. Many a man has dated his ruin from some murder or other that perhaps he thought little of the time.

Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) English writer, essayist, literary critic
Essay (1839-11), “Second Paper on Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts,” Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 46, No. 289

More about this quote: wist.info/de-quincey-thomas/81…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #escalation #depravity #goingdownhill #thomasdequincey #corruption #crime #downwardspiral #gateway #sin #slipperyslope

The #slipperyslope is not a #fallacy.

Proof: [gestures vaguely at everything] #QED.

Twilight of the Big Bang

Good evening. Twilight started at 12:00:01 Coordinated Universal Time, yesterday. It's been nice seeing you!

#Civilization #SlipperySlope #Physics #Time

A quotation from Racine

HIPPOLYTUS: Great crimes are never single, they are link’d
   To former faults. He who has once transgress’d
   May violate at last all that men hold
   Most sacred; vice, like virtue, has degrees
   Of progress; innocence was never seen
   To sink at once into the lowest depths
   Of guilt.
 
[HIPPOLYTE: Quelques crimes toujours precedent les grands crimes.
   Quiconque a pu franchir les bornes légitimes
   Peut violer enfin les droits les plus sacrés ;
   Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degrés ;
   Et jamais on n’a vu la timide innocence
   Passer subitement à l’extrême licence.]

Jean Racine (1639-1699) French dramatist
Phèdre [Phædra], Act 4, sc. 2, l. 1094ff (1677-01-01) [tr. Boswell (1897)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/racine-jean/80880/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #racine #phaedra #jeanracine #corruption #crime #degree #depravity #immorality #sinfulness #sins #slipperyslope #vice

A quotation from Racine

HIPPOLYTUS: Great crimes are never single, they are link’d
   To former faults. He who has once transgress’d
   May violate at last all that men hold
   Most sacred; vice, like virtue, has degrees
   Of progress; innocence was never seen
   To sink at once into the lowest depths
   Of guilt.
 
[HIPPOLYTE: Quelques crimes toujours precedent les grands crimes.
   Quiconque a pu franchir les bornes légitimes
   Peut violer enfin les droits les plus sacrés ;
   Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degrés ;
   Et jamais on n’a vu la timide innocence
   Passer subitement à l’extrême licence.]

Jean Racine (1639-1699) French dramatist
Phèdre [Phædra], Act 4, sc. 2, l. 1094ff (1677-01-01) [tr. Boswell (1897)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/racine-jean/80880/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #racine #phaedra #jeanracine #corruption #crime #degree #depravity #immorality #sinfulness #sins #slipperyslope #vice

A quotation from Racine

HIPPOLYTUS: Great crimes are never single, they are link’d
   To former faults. He who has once transgress’d
   May violate at last all that men hold
   Most sacred; vice, like virtue, has degrees
   Of progress; innocence was never seen
   To sink at once into the lowest depths
   Of guilt.
 
[HIPPOLYTE: Quelques crimes toujours precedent les grands crimes.
   Quiconque a pu franchir les bornes légitimes
   Peut violer enfin les droits les plus sacrés ;
   Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degrés ;
   Et jamais on n’a vu la timide innocence
   Passer subitement à l’extrême licence.]

Jean Racine (1639-1699) French dramatist
Phèdre [Phædra], Act 4, sc. 2, l. 1094ff (1677-01-01) [tr. Boswell (1897)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/racine-jean/80880/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #racine #phaedra #jeanracine #corruption #crime #degree #depravity #immorality #sinfulness #sins #slipperyslope #vice

A quotation from Racine

HIPPOLYTUS: Great crimes are never single, they are link’d
   To former faults. He who has once transgress’d
   May violate at last all that men hold
   Most sacred; vice, like virtue, has degrees
   Of progress; innocence was never seen
   To sink at once into the lowest depths
   Of guilt.
 
[HIPPOLYTE: Quelques crimes toujours precedent les grands crimes.
   Quiconque a pu franchir les bornes légitimes
   Peut violer enfin les droits les plus sacrés ;
   Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degrés ;
   Et jamais on n’a vu la timide innocence
   Passer subitement à l’extrême licence.]

Jean Racine (1639-1699) French dramatist
Phèdre [Phædra], Act 4, sc. 2, l. 1094ff (1677-01-01) [tr. Boswell (1897)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/racine-jean/80880/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #racine #phaedra #jeanracine #corruption #crime #degree #depravity #immorality #sinfulness #sins #slipperyslope #vice

A quotation from Racine

HIPPOLYTUS: Great crimes are never single, they are link’d
   To former faults. He who has once transgress’d
   May violate at last all that men hold
   Most sacred; vice, like virtue, has degrees
   Of progress; innocence was never seen
   To sink at once into the lowest depths
   Of guilt.
 
[HIPPOLYTE: Quelques crimes toujours precedent les grands crimes.
   Quiconque a pu franchir les bornes légitimes
   Peut violer enfin les droits les plus sacrés ;
   Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degrés ;
   Et jamais on n’a vu la timide innocence
   Passer subitement à l’extrême licence.]

Jean Racine (1639-1699) French dramatist
Phèdre [Phædra], Act 4, sc. 2, l. 1094ff (1677-01-01) [tr. Boswell (1897)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/racine-jean/80880/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #racine #phaedra #jeanracine #corruption #crime #degree #depravity #immorality #sinfulness #sins #slipperyslope #vice

Fifteen studies of thousands of people from four countries found that more politically conservative individuals rated slippery-slope arguments as being more logical than did politically liberal individuals.

Summary: https://www.psypost.org/conservatives-are-more-prone-to-slippery-slope-thinking/

Original paper: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01461672251391893

#Science #Psychology #Politics #Argument #SlipperySlope #Ideology #Intuition #Logic

Breaking Precedent, GOP Changes Rules On Nominees

“We are steadily handing away most of the significant constitutional powers of the Senate,” said Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del. “That is very dangerous."

#SlipperySlope #Trump2.0 #BlackMastodon

https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2025/09/12/nation-world-news/breaking-precedent-gop-changes-rules-on-nominees/

20 years ago, it was a scandal that Google started to track which links you clicked on the search-results page:

https://web.archive.org/web/20051119012842/http://mboffin.com/post.aspx?id=1830

#SlipperySlope

@rysiek

Next up, footage from mail delivery trucks. Then, Teslas. Then, individual dash cam footages. #SlipperySlope

As red states in the #UnitedStates slip further down the #SlipperySlope of #fascism in #USpol a recent #prison #escape could produce an #UltraMAGA #Republican challenger to Sarah Huckabee Sanders; Grant Hardin, aka the Devil of the Ozarks!
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ex-police-chief-prison-escape_n_68368b5ae4b06a204c7ec743

@dangillmor do you REALLY believe it’s ONLY to spy on immigrants???

#SlipperySlope

Why people defend extreme positions | @destiny

#GeorgeSantos #NajaHall #SlipperySlope #Progress

Der #SlipperySlope, auch #Dammbruchargument, behauptet, dass eine kleine Veränderung zwangsläufig zu extremen Folgen führt – ohne echte Beweise.
Beispiel:
🚭 „Wenn wir Rauchen in Restaurants verbieten, wird bald ALLES verboten – sogar Fleischessen!“
💰 „Wenn wir höhere Steuern für Reiche fordern, führt das direkt zum Kommunismus!“
Aber nur weil etwas passiert, heißt das nicht, dass das Schlimmste unausweichlich ist.

👉 Tipp: Frage nach Belegen: „Warum genau sollte das passieren?“

Last year, I rediscovered in the attic my incomplete 1990/91 MLB #Topps collection, which I started after a brief visit to the U.S.

Now, some 34 years later, I've finally completed the 1990 set and #Pirates set for good measure.

Next up - finishing 1991 and starting others!?😅 #slipperyslope

#Buccos #MLB #LetsGoBucs

I see that some are advocating for scrambling #web content as a defense against #scrapers. There is a #SlipperySlope here: recently I notice that Zhihu (the Chinese equivalent of Quora) will scramble Chinese characters on pages if it thinks that the #browser is illegitimate, and Cromite (a privacy-focused Chromium fork) is somehow affected by this. I fear that widespread adoption of such, especially by commercial entities, could bar "non-approved" browsers from the web, which is concerning.

@melindrafod

#SlipperySlope 🤬

Rising Seas Wiped Out An Entire US Species For The First Time; Scientists Say It’s A Sign Of Things To Come
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https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/14/climate/florida-cactus-sea-level-rise/index.html <-- shared media article
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https://doi.org/10.17348/jbrit.v18.i1.1350 <-- shared paper
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#water #climatechange #speciesloss #Florida #USA #FloridaKeys #sealevel #sealeverise #SLR #coast #coastal #habitat #ecosystem #bellwether #slipperyslope #tides #stormsurge #saltwater #storms #extremeweather #KeyLargoTreeCactus #cactus #mangroves #dying #humanimpacts #impacts #biodiversity #habitatloss

#Google's call-scanning #AI could dial up #censorship by default, #privacy experts warn
This is essentially #clientsidescanning
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/15/googles-call-scanning-ai-could-dial-up-censorship-by-default-privacy-experts-warn/

Right now #DoNoEvil (kidding) Google is going after #scam calls, but what about in repressive countries or our own?

What happens when they come to find the #dissidents, #BLM, #abortion rights leaders?

#SlipperySlope #surveillance

When asked in his #TIMEMagazine interview what he believes people think about his calls to violate the #Constitution & "#Dictator for a Day", he replied:

"I think the people like it."

And that is the problem. So many of his fans… who screamed "Read the Constitution!" every time #Obama tried to pass healthcare or Bill #Clinton tried to ban assault weapons (refusing to give an inch even on "reasonable" restrictions using the "#SlipperySlope" argument)… are perfectly fine with #OrangeHitler. 😡

@black_intellect
Completely & unquestionably violates the #Constitutional #FirstAmendment right to Assembly. And #Conservatives are like:

"Sure. I'm fine with that as long as the people protesting aren't me." #BLM

But try to impose the SLIGHTEST restriction on the #SecondAmendment, and it's The Apocalypse. You can't give even ONE INCH on your 2A right b/c of the #SlipperySlope argument. 😒

#PersonalStudy #BookOfMormon https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/alma/47

True villainy: Deceit, tricking into a #SlipperySlope, greed, murder, more deceit.

What was going through the minds of the Lamanites who were effected by this power-shift?

Never in U.S. history has there been such a distrust in leadership which allowed aberrants to get into power. Perhaps something similar effected the Lamanites who silently allowed evil to go relatively uncontested to the throne.

@anirvan Speaking as a former publisher & bookseller, it depresses me to see a publisher to give up their independence in this way #SlipperySlope

@georgetakei
This is the #SlipperySlope fallacy, writ large. The GOP and their mouthpieces use it masterfully, and they get away with it because tens (hundreds?) of millions in this country have no ability to recognize nor inclination to avoid #LogicalFallacies.