David PhdI will continue to use the slippery slope arguments, for example against AI, as a metaphor.
Literalists - look away now
clawfulneutralah yes good, another “oh, this is actually happening in the real world and not just a bunch of extremely online fringe crackpots yelling on the internet” moment
‘Disturbing’: Experts troubled by Canada’s euthanasia laws
https://apnews.com/article/covid-science-health-toronto-7c631558a457188d2bd2b5cfd360a867
#MAiD #Euthanasia #SlipperySlope #NoWarButClassWar (and we’re losing)
ilmariAfter having seen an increasing number of #MullvadVPN #AndThen posters on the #LondonUnderground, I finally got around to watching the videos, and I must say they make the point about #MassSurveillance being a #SlipperySlope pretty well.
Frank_NL
GravitasCar "subscription" gaslighting - this is NOT a fallacy, it's real!
Car "subscription" gaslighting - this is NOT a fallacy, it's real!
WIST QuotationsA 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…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #escalation #depravity #goingdownhill #thomasdequincey #corruption #crime #downwardspiral #gateway #sin #slipperyslope
De Quincey, Thomas - Essay (1839-11), "Second Paper on Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts," Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 46, No. 289 | WIST Quotations
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…
Daniel DvorkinThe #slipperyslope is not a #fallacy.
Proof: [gestures vaguely at everything] #QED.
Rene Raggl 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇬🇱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
Dave MuthTwilight of the Big Bang
Good evening. Twilight started at 12:00:01 Coordinated Universal Time, yesterday. It's been nice seeing you!
WIST Quotations Has Moved!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 crimes toujours precedent les grands crimes.
Quiconque a pu franchir les bornes légitimes
Peut violer enfin les droits les plus sacrés ;
Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degrés ;
Et jamais on n’a vu la timide innocence
Passer subitement à l’extrême licence.]
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 crimes toujours precedent les grands crimes.
Quiconque a pu franchir les bornes légitimes
Peut violer enfin les droits les plus sacrés ;
Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degrés ;
Et jamais on n’a vu la timide innocence
Passer subitement à l’extrême licence.]
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/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #racine #phaedra #jeanracine #corruption #crime #degree #depravity #immorality #sinfulness #sins #slipperyslope #vice
Phèdre [Phædra], Act 4, sc. 2, l. 1094ff (1677-01-01) [tr. Boswell (1897)] - Racine, Jean | WIST Quotations
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…