Seeing the Supreme Court declare homosexual unions (they are NOT marriages) acceptable has proved this to me. It leads to incest, pedophelia, bestiality, the sterilization of children, and trannies. It's either hold the line at the top of the hill or slip all the way down.
Problem is stupid people see the word fallacy and think it automatically means the argument is wrong or not worth considering. When all it means is it's not sound, as in not absolute.
Sound logic is supposed to work like math, it's a way of determining something is objectively true. That's why some common patterns of logic, like slippery slope, are fallacies, because they're not absolute. Doesn't mean it's wrong, but people see the word fallacy and assume it means false.
Agree with everything you said, a fallacy is an argument not based on logic. The sad thing is that fallacies work. Why spend 30 minutes giving a logic debate on a subject when you can take 5 seconds and say, "That dude is a Nazi. Why are you listening to Nazis for?"
It IS a fallacy when the logic presented is dog shit; aka the leap between causes and effects is too much and/or has no historical basis. Defunding the police = crime skyrocketing is not a slippery slope for example.
It's called "The Slippery Slope" and higher education has been trying to convince generations of impressionable young minds that it is a "fallacy".
It is not.
Seeing the Supreme Court declare homosexual unions (they are NOT marriages) acceptable has proved this to me. It leads to incest, pedophelia, bestiality, the sterilization of children, and trannies. It's either hold the line at the top of the hill or slip all the way down.
Problem is stupid people see the word fallacy and think it automatically means the argument is wrong or not worth considering. When all it means is it's not sound, as in not absolute.
Sound logic is supposed to work like math, it's a way of determining something is objectively true. That's why some common patterns of logic, like slippery slope, are fallacies, because they're not absolute. Doesn't mean it's wrong, but people see the word fallacy and assume it means false.
Agree with everything you said, a fallacy is an argument not based on logic. The sad thing is that fallacies work. Why spend 30 minutes giving a logic debate on a subject when you can take 5 seconds and say, "That dude is a Nazi. Why are you listening to Nazis for?"
Fine. But when it comes to acceptance of homosexuality and it's spread to other societal ills, it has been absolute. At least so far.
Obligatory "slippery slope" can be a fallacy or it can be logical. Of course not both at the same time.
It IS a fallacy when the logic presented is dog shit; aka the leap between causes and effects is too much and/or has no historical basis. Defunding the police = crime skyrocketing is not a slippery slope for example.