Car "subscription" gaslighting - this is NOT a fallacy, it's real!
A quotation from Thomas De Quincey
For if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Once begin upon this downward path, you never know where to stop. Many a man has dated his ruin from some murder or other that perhaps he thought little of the time.Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) English writer, essayist, literary critic
Essay (1839-11), “Second Paper on Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts,” Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 46, No. 289
More about this quote: wist.info/de-quincey-thomas/81…
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For if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Once begin upon this downward path, you never know where to stop. Many a man…
The #slipperyslope is not a #fallacy.
Proof: [gestures vaguely at everything] #QED.
RE: https://mastodon.online/@NOSRSS/115832039710096352
This.... this is how it begins... #Trump is testing how far he can go. It's a powerplay and landgrab what the #us has done in #venezuela
This has nothing to do with drugs or justice. Nothing. Only greed. I am astonished that he is so open about it. If the international community does not condemn this harshly and immediately and take action against the US we are already halfway down the. Embargo, limit cooperation, whatever... #slipperyslope
Twilight of the Big Bang
Good evening. Twilight started at 12:00:01 Coordinated Universal Time, yesterday. It's been nice seeing you!
Jean Racine (1639-1699) French dramatist
Phèdre [Phædra], Act 4, sc. 2, l. 1094ff (1677-01-01) [tr. Boswell (1897)]
More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/racine-jean/80880/
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HIPPOLYTUS: Great crimes are never single, they are link'd To former faults. He who has once transgress'd May violate at last all that men hold Most sacred; vice, like virtue, has degrees Of progress; innocence was never seen To sink at once into the lowest depths Of guilt. [HIPPOLYTE: Quelques…
Fifteen studies of thousands of people from four countries found that more politically conservative individuals rated slippery-slope arguments as being more logical than did politically liberal individuals.
Summary: https://www.psypost.org/conservatives-are-more-prone-to-slippery-slope-thinking/
Original paper: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01461672251391893
#Science #Psychology #Politics #Argument #SlipperySlope #Ideology #Intuition #Logic
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