Magnifisyncopathological: Slippery Slopes & Reductio Creep

November 20, 2003

Slippery Slopes & Reductio Creep

Bonfire of the Absurdities
Post-Reductio America
Reductio Creep

I know Slippery Slope arguements are logically invalid. But the slow grind of nanny statism continues unabated in slippery slope fashion with only hiccups getting in it's way. I can't argue along consistently logical lines with reasoning that includes some form of slippery slope ("If you ban or regulate this, then you'll just move right along to this), but it becomes clearer and clearer each day that there are people out there (many of them in various seats of power) who cannot really see an end in sight for their expansion of the government into our lives. And the single most branded-about justification for this is...it's for your own good.

There's an unpleasant thought as I go to bed.

UPDATED 5/27/2005 9:31am
Banning Knives and Slippery Slopes

Posted by Drizzten at November 20, 2003 01:09 AM

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