assault rifles are fun to play with
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akgrown
Well-Known Member
people like this give me little hope for humanity.....he keeps saying Cheese IT's but I can clearly see a ghetto brand of Cheese Nip's on the pool table. And what is up with his face did he use crayola marker to color it......
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
The slippery slope argument is not necessarily fallacious, UB. In the matter of guns, the camel's nose argument equates with the Ratchet, which is a proven fact of gun legislation for the past hundred years. If you can show that gun restrictions are relaxzed with any sort of regularity, I will abandon the Ratchet argument. But it is in place, and it powerfully motivates the defenders of gun rights to speek out against the "common-sense" effort to tighten the Ratchet. cn
"There are a variety of ways to turn a slippery slope fallacy into a valid (or at least plausible) argument. All you need to do is provide some reason why the adoption of one policy will lead to the adoption of another. For example, you could argue that legalizing marijuana would cause more people to consider the use of mind-altering drugs acceptable, and those people will support more permissive drug policies across the board. An alternative to the slippery slope argument is simply to point out that the principles espoused by your opposition imply the acceptability of certain other policies, so if we don't like those other policies, we should question whether we really buy those principles. For instance, if the proposing team argued for legalizing marijuana by saying, "individuals should be able to do whatever they want with their own bodies," the opposition could point out that that principle would also justify legalizing a variety of other drugs -- so if we don't support legalizing other drugs, then maybe we don't really believe in that principle."
from http://www.csun.edu/~dgw61315/fallacies.html
