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Full agreement. "Slippery Slope" may be a fallacy, but establishing a precedent is a real thing and there's no way this stops here.


I think whoever popularized “slippery slope” being a fallacy was an evil mastermind.

It’s empowered countless midwits the ability to blithely dismiss valid sloppy slopes with “nuh uh! It’s a fallacy!”




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