Slippery Slope Fallacy By Derek Gossett and Bekah

Slippery Slope Fallacy By: Derek Gossett and Bekah Lancaster

Definition n Also known as the camel’s nose n A fallacy in which a person asserts that some event must inevitably follow from another without any argument for the inevitability of the event in question. In most cases, there a series of steps between one event and the one in question and no reason is given as to why the intervening steps will simply be bypassed.

Examples n “(1) If you buy a Green Day album, then next you’ll be buying Buzzcocks albums, and before you know it you’ll be a punk with green hair and everything. (2) You don’t want to become a punk. Therefore: (3) You shouldn’t buy a Green Day album. ”

More examples n The first step towards inevitably becoming Amy Winehouse. . Slippery Slope isn't always a logical fallacy. The slippery slope is an analogy used to describe any argument that presupposes that if one small step is taken in a particular direction, it will inevitably lead to a more extreme outcome. For example, it is common wisdom that, once you start drinking alone, you're destined to die naked in a gutter with a liver made of pure grain alcohol. It might be true, but it's not necessarily true, and is thus a logical fallacy.

Explanation n The picture shows that if gays can marry, then legal incest and bigamy will happen as a result. n If something happens, then this will occur as a result.

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