The first three cases are clear examples of the fallacy of the slippery slope, 4 and 5 seems like a good use of this argument, while 6 I think the argument is vitiated by the fallacy slippery although it may be debatable.
http://www.geocities.com/ateologia2001/falacias1.html # pendienteresbaladiza
1. "If marijuana were legalized, everyone would try it and then begin to engage with hard drugs, and before long we would have a society of addicts."
http://perso.wanadoo.es/usoderazonweb/html/conten/arca/listado/pend.htm
2. Any cuts in health care may seem banal, but it is very dangerous. Small cuts open the door to major cuts and eventually the abolition of free health care. If we prevent this trend, the Government shall be construed as a knowing wink to end the public health system.
http://www.fallacyfiles.org/slipslop.html
3. If today you CAN take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, tomorrow you CAN make it a crime to teach it in the private schools, and the next year you CAN make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers. Soon you may set Catholic against Protestant and Protestant against Protestant, and try to foist your own religion upon the minds of men. If you can do one you can do the other. Ignorance and fanaticism is ever busy and needs feeding. Always it is feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers, tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lectures, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After [a]while, your honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth century when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind.
Source: Clarence Darrow, The Scopes Trial , Day 2 . Clarence Darrow was the best advocate of all-time U.S.. UU., And the scope monkey trial is one of the most famous of all time in the U.S.. UU.
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendiente_resbaladiza
4. A "slippery slope" common policy is the negoción with terrorists. The argument is that if the government negotiates with terrorists, then the government recognizes that the terrorist group has power, terrorism would be seen as a method that produces results and therefore be more prevalent as a way to win power and force governments to grant claims. This argument is reasonable, but to be valid must be backed by supporting evidence regarding the assumptions made. Similarly, decisions should be considered in terms of the consequences of legal precedents created, and foreign policy decisions in terms of the effect on credibility.
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2005/schelling-lecture.html
An Astonishing Sixty Years: The Legacy of Hiroshima
5. If you allow the use of the atomic bomb, it opens Pandora's box and anything could happen. As probably the world's destruction is assured. Therefore, no nuclear state has seriously considered using it.
This is the argument put forward by Thomas Schelling on why nuclear states have not used the bomb after Hiroshima. According to him, this is the reason why the U.S. never thought to use the atomic bomb in Vietnam and the Soviets in Afghanistan.
used by Gonzalo Gamio argument for not allowing torture in exceptional circumstances
http://gonzalogamio.blogspot.com/2008/07/gonzalo-gamio-gehri-hace-unos-meses.html
6. If allowed the use of torture in situations of war or serious attacks, states could use in normal situations, which end up debasing the State.
http://www.geocities.com/ateologia2001/falacias1.html # pendienteresbaladiza
1. "If marijuana were legalized, everyone would try it and then begin to engage with hard drugs, and before long we would have a society of addicts."
http://perso.wanadoo.es/usoderazonweb/html/conten/arca/listado/pend.htm
2. Any cuts in health care may seem banal, but it is very dangerous. Small cuts open the door to major cuts and eventually the abolition of free health care. If we prevent this trend, the Government shall be construed as a knowing wink to end the public health system.
http://www.fallacyfiles.org/slipslop.html
3. If today you CAN take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, tomorrow you CAN make it a crime to teach it in the private schools, and the next year you CAN make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers. Soon you may set Catholic against Protestant and Protestant against Protestant, and try to foist your own religion upon the minds of men. If you can do one you can do the other. Ignorance and fanaticism is ever busy and needs feeding. Always it is feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers, tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lectures, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After [a]while, your honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth century when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind.
Source: Clarence Darrow, The Scopes Trial , Day 2 . Clarence Darrow was the best advocate of all-time U.S.. UU., And the scope monkey trial is one of the most famous of all time in the U.S.. UU.
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendiente_resbaladiza
4. A "slippery slope" common policy is the negoción with terrorists. The argument is that if the government negotiates with terrorists, then the government recognizes that the terrorist group has power, terrorism would be seen as a method that produces results and therefore be more prevalent as a way to win power and force governments to grant claims. This argument is reasonable, but to be valid must be backed by supporting evidence regarding the assumptions made. Similarly, decisions should be considered in terms of the consequences of legal precedents created, and foreign policy decisions in terms of the effect on credibility.
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2005/schelling-lecture.html
An Astonishing Sixty Years: The Legacy of Hiroshima
5. If you allow the use of the atomic bomb, it opens Pandora's box and anything could happen. As probably the world's destruction is assured. Therefore, no nuclear state has seriously considered using it.
This is the argument put forward by Thomas Schelling on why nuclear states have not used the bomb after Hiroshima. According to him, this is the reason why the U.S. never thought to use the atomic bomb in Vietnam and the Soviets in Afghanistan.
used by Gonzalo Gamio argument for not allowing torture in exceptional circumstances
http://gonzalogamio.blogspot.com/2008/07/gonzalo-gamio-gehri-hace-unos-meses.html
6. If allowed the use of torture in situations of war or serious attacks, states could use in normal situations, which end up debasing the State.
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