So does Zac Alstin.<\/a> The next time somebody barks at you that slippery slope arguments are fallacious, ask why they have such a nasty tendency to come true.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aside from the fact that people who constantly place us on slippery slopes loudly shout that, \u201cSlippery slope arguments are fallacies!\u201d what actual reason do we have for believing the slippery slope arguments are fallacies? I think slippery slope arguments\u2013proven right again and again by our experience of the culture of death\u2013are just another way […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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