This has always bothered me, because I can think of instance where bad behaviors can definetly lead to worst behaviors. The classic, if you smoke pot you’ll use harder drugs, is clearly not true in itself. Weed doesn’t cause you to want to do harder drugs, but since weed is illegal in a lot of places, it could expose you to hard drugs and you could become a user. I understand that this is not always the case, but I’d like to better understand why this is considered a fallacy when it could be true sometimes.
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It’s considered a fallacy when the links are not logically explained. Lots of times, it is used to make something seem worse than it is by saying it will lead to something bad. So A is not that bad but D is really bad. We should not do A because of D. The implication is made that A will definitely lead to D.
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