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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You answered it in your question. The problem with the slippery slope argument is it’s framed as x ***will*** lead to y. It’s one thing to say x may increase the chances of y. It’s another to say if x happens it’s only a matter of time y does and then z not much longer.
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