The random political thoughts thread (Part Deux)

[Alex]

Perhaps, though I'd say it is also the case that slippery slope arguments seem a lot more reasonable when you agree that the feared end state is a bad thing.

I should have had a 3 in my post above about how slipper slope arguments are misused. The 3 is to pretend that there are no countering forces resisting the slide down the slope, that it is a frictionless surface. And therefore, that essentially any end result that can be imagined is equally as likely as any other. (When I see this it reminds me of people who call into sports radio and say "all our problems would be solved if we traded the 25th man on our roster for Alex Rodriguez and Tim Lincecum" in how they seem to think that just because they can imagine it, it must be possible.)