Comments on: For those who dismiss slippery slope arguments http://www.asoftanswer.com/2008/05/15/for-those-who-dismiss-slippery-slope-arguments/ an unseemly mix of politics and Mormonism Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:06:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: David H. Sundwall http://www.asoftanswer.com/2008/05/15/for-those-who-dismiss-slippery-slope-arguments/comment-page-1/#comment-4284 David H. Sundwall Thu, 15 May 2008 21:27:15 +0000 http://www.asoftanswer.com/?p=1163#comment-4284 Chris - I thought Volokh was effective in contrasting statements advocating incremental same-sex rights laws that claimed they weren't going to lead to SSM against the SSM decisions which cited those very same laws as part of the justification. There sure seems to be some causality in this case. That's weird about your newfound anonymity. OpenID works for others on the site. Chris -

I thought Volokh was effective in contrasting statements advocating incremental same-sex rights laws that claimed they weren’t going to lead to SSM against the SSM decisions which cited those very same laws as part of the justification. There sure seems to be some causality in this case.

That’s weird about your newfound anonymity. OpenID works for others on the site.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.asoftanswer.com/2008/05/15/for-those-who-dismiss-slippery-slope-arguments/comment-page-1/#comment-4283 Anonymous Thu, 15 May 2008 21:20:09 +0000 http://www.asoftanswer.com/?p=1163#comment-4283 I am not sure why it is putting me as Anonymous I am not sure why it is putting me as Anonymous

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.asoftanswer.com/2008/05/15/for-those-who-dismiss-slippery-slope-arguments/comment-page-1/#comment-4282 Anonymous Thu, 15 May 2008 21:17:57 +0000 http://www.asoftanswer.com/?p=1163#comment-4282 That slippery slope arguments sometimes turn out to be true does not make them good arguments. There is always a certain element of truth to them, much in the way that stereotypes consist of some true elemnts. One of the problem with slippery slope arguments is that they often assume a causal relationship between the chain of events. There rarely is such a relationship. That slippery slope arguments sometimes turn out to be true does not make them good arguments. There is always a certain element of truth to them, much in the way that stereotypes consist of some true elemnts. One of the problem with slippery slope arguments is that they often assume a causal relationship between the chain of events. There rarely is such a relationship.

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