I found on the Interweb quite a few Slippery Slope Arguments made by people with advanced logical reasoning powers throughout the history every time a social change is about to take place…
Interracial marriage is a slippery slope that leads to legalized polygamy and incest:
" It is clear from the most recent available evidence on the psychosociological aspect of this question that intermarried families are subjected to much greater pressures and problems than those of the intra-married, and that the state’s prohibition of interracial marriage for this reason stands on the same footing as the prohibition of polygamous marriage, or incestuous marriage…"
Suffrage is a slippery slope that leads to the dissolution of human relations:
“…giving women suffrage was construed in 1848 as an assault on the traditional family, a slippery slope toward dissolution of the God-given order of human relations.”
Abolition is a slippery slope that leads to blah blah blah:
“Fitzhugh regarded the preservation of societal order as among the chief benefits of human thralldom, declaring that ‘at the saveholding South all is peace, quiet, plenty and contentment. We have no mobs, no trade unions, no strikes for higher wages, no armed resistance to the law, but little jealousy of the rich by the poor. We have but few in our jails, and fewer in our poor houses.’ This was no coincidence: Because blacks so clearly required masters, racial slavery was 'the most necessary of all human institutions,” an "indispensable police institution.’
In Fitzhugh’s view, abolitionists sought nothing less than the reorganization of American society. They wished ‘to abolish … or greatly modify the relations of husband and wife, parent and child, the institution of private property of all kinds, but especially separate ownership of lands, and the institution of Christian churches now existing in America.’ If they are successful, Fitzhugh warned, government, law, religion, and marriage would be among the causalities."
Desegregation is a slippery slope that leads to interracial conflict:
“…segregation could reduce the ‘friction’ caused by the ‘repugnancies’ between the races that arose from ‘natural differences’. Additionally, by the 1890s, violence, including lynching, perpetuated predominantly by Southern European Americans against African Americans, had increased to dramatically that segregation increasingly appeared to be 'the embodiment of enlightened public policy - a progressive strategy for reducing interracial conflict.”
There are many more, but since we’ve got astonishingly many folks here on Forumosa with advanced logical reasoning powers to foresee and warn us of the downward spiral our society will slide down every time an amendment is about to be made, I’m wondering if they’d help me understand the following…
The age of consent has been raised by the US government from as low as 10 to somewhere between 16 and 18 now. Using the Slippery Slope Argument, wouldn’t the government keep raising the age of consent to 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 110 etc, thus open the door to necrophilia?
The age of majority has been lowered from 21 to 18. Using the Slippery Slope Argument, wouldn’t the government keep lowering the age of majority from 18 to 17, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, thus open the door to pedophilia?
Christians say that God created Adam and then Eve. So they must have made sexy times with each other to produce children, and the children must also have made sexy times with each other to produce even more children. So would you say that the entire human race is the product of incest? But our godless governments have outlawed incest. Where would this slippery slope lead us to?