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Slippery Slope Fallacy
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The Slippery Slope Fallacy: Based on the idea that an object placed at the top of a slippery slope will slide all the way to the bottom if given even a small nudge, the Slippery Slope Fallacy means arguing that even a small step taken in one direction will lead to some drastic consequence. This argument usually ignores the individual connections between events in favor of simply linking one event inevitably to another. However, this is not inherently fallacious ... after all, some slopes really are that slippery. It does, however, fall on the claimant to justify a logical, probable, and inevitable series of events. Without that, the argument has no meaning. Note that this can approach a YMMV. A Slippery Slope argument that you agree with will seem more reasonable than one you disagree with. There is also a "Reverse Slippery Slope Fallacy", namely the argument that since one has taken the first step down the slope without sliding to the bottom, it is clearly safe to take the next step. (Demonstration: smoking one cigarette won't get you hooked, or give you cancer. Nor will smoking a second cigarette. However, keep smoking cigarettes, and bad outcomes become increasingly likely.) Another related trope is Jumping Off the Slippery Slope, where a character quickly goes from doing something morally ambiguous to becoming clearly evil. |
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Everybody Hates Chris: This is Rochelle's justification for her strict (bordering on abusive) parenting: if their kids get away with a minor infraction, like lying or talking back, it will eventually lead them to do worse offenses until they eventually end up in a life of crime, like many of the inhabitants of Bed Stuy. In particular, when Tonya refused to eat sausages on dinner, she was venting how she'll eventually move from being a Picky Eater to choosing inappropriate clothing, then defying curfew, which would result in her getting pregnant, and punishes her by not allowing her to have anything else for dinner until she eats the sausage. | |
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Lincoln: During the debate over passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, which would outlaw slavery in America, Representative Yeaman announces his opposition to the amendment, despite hating slavery, because he fears it would lead to further reform, such as letting all black people vote. Just before the vote on the amendment, Lincoln urges him to focus on the singular issue of slavery and let the rest be debated about in its own time. | |
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The last strip of the chapter "Futures Trading" in The Adventures of Dr. McNinja has the Doctor just having come back from an alternative future where homeless people were given jetpacks and hunted for sport. Thus, he's now explaining why jetpacks should never be invented because it will lead to that — even though the context in the future he just stopped from happening was that human-hating dinosaurs had taken over the world, and they were the ones doing the hunting. Then it turns out that the same slippery slope has already happened with rollerblades in this time.note So basically all of this whole example's text could just be linked to It Makes Just As Much Sense In Context. | |
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Andy Griffiths' Just Series: In "Busting" from "Just Stupid", Andy is having a Potty Emergency, but the men's bathroom is closed. He considers using the handicapped toilets, but then decides against it, for fear that the next day, he'll start maliciously using other things meant for disabled people. | |
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Dilbert: The Pointy-Haired Boss apparently believes that showing any concern for his employees' health is a slippery slope, as this comic indicates here. Also, his employee thinks that if he doesn't get fewer working hours, he'd die from Sleep Deprivation. | |
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: When Ganke Lee is asked by his roommate Miles Morales/Spider-Man to call the cops about an imminent robbery, he doesn’t bother and calls the request “a slippery slope.� His reasoning is that doing this one favor for Spider-Man would eventually result in Ganke doing more and more work for the superhero, and Ganke has no desire to be “your guy in the chair.� | |
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In the King of the Hill episode "Trans-Fascism", Hank has to struggle between the law and his morals when he and his pals start running a lunch truck that sold foodstuffs banned by the city council. He knows Arlen is enacting an unfair law that even the person who had suggested it in the first place now regrets, but knew he could well cause worse problems. In a Dream Sequence wherein George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Tom Landry (who all faced Slippery Slope crises on a much bigger scale) confront him, Washington quotes the trope directly. | |
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Sesame Street: In one episode, Telly refuses to try a cheese and lettuce sandwich, because he fears that if he did, he'd dislike the taste, scrunch his face up, lean back, fall off the stool, and come rolling down the street and crash into Lexine on her pogo stick, who'd fly off in land in Oscar's trash can. In one skit, Bert asks his roommate Ernie to put a vase on one of two shelves. Ernie thinks that if he put the vase on the small shelf, it'd fall off, break, and then Bert would throw him out of their apartment leaving Ernie homeless. He then decides that if he puts it on the big shelf, Bert would not only congratulate him for not breaking the vase, he'd throw him a party just for not breaking it. Another skit has Ernie deliberately not putting a roller skate away, because he thinks if Ernie stood on it, he'd be sent out the door to the ice cream shop, and then buy them both ice cream. Ernie again in a skit where he wants to ask a man named Herbert Birdsfoot to borrow a vacuum cleaner, but then decides not to, because he might be interrupting Herbert's bath, and then Herbert might catch a cold, get angry at Ernie, refuse to loan him the vacuum cleaner, and then badmouth him to Ernie's friends, who'd stop loaning him their things, and then stop speaking to him. One cartoon sketch has a little girl wanting to empty her bag of ping-pong balls, only to decide not to. Her reasoning was that the balls might wake up her pet cat, who'd knock over the parrot's cage, and then her mother would come home, assume the cat made the mess, and get mad at him. Another cartoon has a girl considering scaring her friend, who's on his skateboard and walking a dog. However, she changes her mind because she fears he may get pulled along by the dog on his skateboard, knock over the fruit cart, fall backwards, and hit his head. In another cartoon, a girl wonders what would happen if she lied that her cat Lucy broke the window when it was actually her. She decides not to when she thinks that "they" might punish Lucy by kicking her out of the house, she'd try to sleep in the doghouse of Bruno the dog, he'd get territorial, and she'd run away never to be seen again. |
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The Music Man: Invoked by Professor Harold Hill in "Ya Got Trouble", as he suggests that a pool table will lead to drinking, gambling, smoking, and using certain words, words like (gasp!) "swell" and "so's your old man" as a way to trick the people into purchasing his musical instruments. | |
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Real Time with Bill Maher: Bill Maher rebutted this type of fallacious reasoning in one routine: "Gay marriage will not lead to dog marriage! When we gave women the vote we did not also have to give it to parakeets. When we freed the slaves we were not obligated to free the gerbils." | |
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In Peeking Through the Fourth Wall, Episode 19 has a character in the story proclaim, "That's a slippery slope!" for seemingly no reason. Lisa, reading the story, says that it isn't, and defines what an actual slippery slope is. | |
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The Loud House: "Butterfly Effect" turns out to all be Lincoln imagining what would happen if he didn't tell Lisa the truth about breaking her chemistry set: First, he thinks that the explosion from the crash would lead to Lori discovering a photo of Leni with Bobby, causing her to think Bobby cheated on her and dump him for Clyde, and it would also give Leni a head injury that would make her smarter than Lisa, which would make Leni arrogant and she'd leave home. Then, he thinks Lisa would give up her studies in a fit of insecurity due to no longer being the smartest, leading to Lynn flunking due to Lisa no longer tutoring her, she'd throw a ball in frustration, which would hit Lola in the nose and disfigure it, making her insecure and she and Lynn would turn to crime. Then, Lana would worry that she'd also sustain an injury like Leni and Lola and move into a hamster ball, and Luna would write a song about the chaos, get famous, and go on a world tour. Luan, with no roommate, would take to watching the news, which would turn her into a jaded environmentalist. Finally, as part of her environmentalism, she'd let Lana's pets out of their cages, and her vampire bat would bite Lucy, turning her into a vampire, and Lincoln would go back to Lisa and Lily's room to try to fix the situation, only to find that Lily had drunk or inhaled Lisa's spilled formulae, causing her to grow into a giant and eat Lincoln. |
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Used by Miss Finster in the Recess episode "The Great Jungle Gym Standoff" to argue why they shouldn't give in to the kids' demands. | |
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Cards Against Humanity invokes this with a two-white-card black card: "_____ is a slippery slope that leads to _____." | |
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Animal House uses this argument in the scene where Otter convinces Dean Wormer that it is unethical to target the entire fraternity for the action of "a few sick and twisted individuals". He then claims that if they are going to blame his fraternity, then they should blame the entire fraternity system, and if they are going to blame the entire fraternity system, they should blame all of American society in general. They then leave the room humming the national anthem. | |
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Some take the argument even further, and claim that outright abuse and harassment should be protected by freedom of speech, and people who have been dropped from YouTube or social media platforms for their horrific behavior tend to brand the bans as media companies "censoring" them for their views. | |
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Used often in the U.S. minimum wage strikes. Pundits frequently asked if the minimum wage was going to be raised by a few dollars per hour now, what was to stop it growing to absurd levels. This led to many parodies on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, especially when one anchor asked "Why not raise minimum wage to one hundred thousand dollars an hour?" Apparently there is no middle ground between less than three hundred dollars a week and four million. | |
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Pleasantville: The antagonist argues that people showing color will be the ruin of the town. | |
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Nimona: This turns out to be the motive of the Big Bad. The Director of the knights of the kingdom disapproves of Ballister being knighted, as he is a commoner and all previous knights came from noble bloodlines. She reasons that he’ll be a weak link in the kingdom’s defense that will gradually grow as more commoners follow in his steps, and thus murders the queen and frames him for it. | |
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Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: To rally a group of tenants to file a class action lawsuit against their landlord, Rebecca convinces them that the lack of hot water in their apartments will result in all their children becoming crack addicts. | |
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