Examples of Slippery Slope

The advocate asserts without evidence that if we take "one step in the wrong direction", it will inexorably lead to catastrophe.

• Media Watch's not so subtle slope
  
• Mr Lefty is worried
  
• "Critical" literacy
• Pithy and ironic aphorisms on some fallacies in thinking
• Will you "contractually government register our relationship(s)" with me?
• Singer and the Slippery Slope fallacy

For a comprehensive and considered written commentary on the Slippery Slope (and other fallacies) - see The skeptic's field guide to spotting fallacies in thinking - Humbug!

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