Thursday, June 30, 2016

Slippery Slope Examples

The Slippery Slope is the idea that when something happens another event will occur due to the previous one. It is a chain reaction and really no explanation as to why it happens. The Nizkor Project has a good idea to the explanation of what the Slippery Slope equation looks like, "This "argument" has the following form: 
1. Event X has occurred (or will or might occur). 
2. Therefore event Y will inevitably happen."
It is interesting to think about how something happens because of something else. There are a lot of examples in life that can agree with this idea. Some of the examples I found it does not make sense as to why these events happen because of something else. I believe this comic is a good example because it shows how by doing one thing it prevents bad things from happening. The Slippery Slope can be thought of as something you do to avoid other things. A lot of the examples can be negative, but there can also be positive ideas as well.  











Links:
http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/slippery-slope.html
http://pactiss.org/2008/09/09/slippery-slope-cartoon/ 

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