[This month, I'm serializing my 2003 Harvard Law Review article, The Mechanisms of the Slippery Slope; in yesterday's post, I laid out some examples and definitions, but here I want to flag several ...

Multi-peaked slippery slopes can happen when a significant group of people prefers both extremes to the compromise position. One such situation is when A without B seems unfairly discriminatory.

Tina Weirather from Liechtenstein on her way to winning an alpine skiing event, the Women's World Cup super-G, in Germany. (Photo: AP/ Pier Marco Tacca) If someone or something is on a slippery slope, ...

The Slippery Slope Argument is an argument that concludes that if an action is taken, other negative consequences will follow. For example, “If event X were to occur, then event Y would (eventually) ...

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In simple terms, a logical fallacy is a flaw in reasoning that weakens your argument; you’ve drawn a conclusion based on illogical, irrelevant, deceptive, or otherwise faulty evidence. You’re probably ...

Amiee Ball is the Founder & CEO of JAB Consulting Group, a company guiding organizations to build successful businesses in a digital world. One of the characteristics of being human is our large ...

Someone’s always worried that something new is going to lead us down a slippery slope to ruin. When a documentary about deceased chef Anthony Bourdain included footage in which a synthetic voice ...

The Twittersphere went into meltdown on Monday night after a spat on ABC’s Q&A between bioethics professor Margaret Somerville and 81-year-old audience member Patricia Fellows. Somerville defended, at ...