A lot of people seem to not understand what a fallacy is. They think that if something is fallacious then it is necessarily false, which ironically is a fallacy in and of itself (the fallacy fallacy). All that a fallacy is is an argument that does not logically follow from the starting axioms and the conclusion. Slippery slopes are predictions, sometimes accurate ones, but it does not necessarily follow that some of a thing leads to more of that thing, thus it is a fallacy.
Well, that's the thing, though. It's only a fallacy if it doesn't follow logically.
Not that it matters. Observed trends, such as radicalization pipelines, are not logical arguments, they're... observed trends. And suggesting that noticing those trends is actually engaging in a logical fallacy, as we see on display here, is just some bad faith cargo-cult no-you-ing.
18 Comments
Cryophilia@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 2y
What I make is that you're just not very bright
darcy@sh.itjust.works · -12 pts · 2y
ad hominem lol
TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz · 8 pts · 2y
SatyrSack@lemmy.one · 9 pts · 2y
Slippery soap fallacy
Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 2y
Why didn't he put on a skirt and become a girl
darcy@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 2y
funny i laughed
Cryophilia@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
Your mom is a fallacy
PugJesus@kbin.social · 18 pts · 2y
Slippery slope fallacy = "These only vaguely connected things will lead to one another."
Pipeline = "This community has considerable overlap with another community, and participation in one is likely to lead to participation in the other."
nxfsi@lemmy.world · -18 pts · 2y
In other words:
Slippery slope = when used by people I don't like
Pipeline = for me to use against someone I don't like
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
Cryophilia@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
In other words, deez nuts
darcy@sh.itjust.works · -7 pts · 2y
fax
Kichae@kbin.social · 13 pts · 2y
When the slope is actually slippery, and you don't know what a fallacy is.
obosob@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 2y
A lot of people seem to not understand what a fallacy is. They think that if something is fallacious then it is necessarily false, which ironically is a fallacy in and of itself (the fallacy fallacy). All that a fallacy is is an argument that does not logically follow from the starting axioms and the conclusion. Slippery slopes are predictions, sometimes accurate ones, but it does not necessarily follow that some of a thing leads to more of that thing, thus it is a fallacy.
Kichae@kbin.social · 2 pts · 2y
Well, that's the thing, though. It's only a fallacy if it doesn't follow logically.
Not that it matters. Observed trends, such as radicalization pipelines, are not logical arguments, they're... observed trends. And suggesting that noticing those trends is actually engaging in a logical fallacy, as we see on display here, is just some bad faith cargo-cult no-you-ing.
darcy@sh.itjust.works · -4 pts · 2y
its only slippery when its someone else slipping...
JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 2y
Is precedent different?
ShittyRedditWasBetter@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 2y
Ohh this one is Gina make people big mads.