The Slippery Slope Fallacy
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A slippery slope argument (also known as a thin end of the wedge argument) is when we say that by taking such and such a step we will tread on a slippery slope and slide all the way down to the bottom. Some slippery slope arguments are fallacies, you need to know how to tell which.
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