Slippery slope
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The slippery slope is a logical fallacy that asserts that some event must inevitably follow from some other event, even though no justification for that inevitability is provided.
Often, it is assumed that a series of steps or gradations will be entirely skipped over, to jump to some extreme event, without any reasons being given for why that would occur.
A slippery slope argument often takes the form:
- Event X has occurred (or will or might occur).
- Therefore event Y will inevitably happen.
No supporting arugment for why X must lead to Y is provided.
