The Slippery Slope

Not only did several stores close, but they lost tons of revenue. If a company is viewed as morally incorrect, corrupt, or just in general has a bad reputation, customers will not want to purchase nor endorse their products. This leads us to a slippery slope argument that can be made saying; with lesser customers, you’d need to increase price, but this would lead to a loss of even more customers due to affordability. If you lose those customers only a few would remain meaning that profits would…

down at the slope, filled with excitement, I imagined myself shredding down the slope with a flurry of snow spraying in my wake. Falling as I got off the chairlift should have put my confidence back in check, but it did not. In retrospect, I should have seen this as a foreboding of what was to come. Off we pushed to the top of the trail Elliot Slope. Completely disregarding everything I had been told about controlling my speed, I went full out, limiting my turns, and racing down the slope.…

What is the “right” science to teach students, creationism or evolution? The teaching of creationism and evolution in classes has been a huge controversy over the past decades. The belief that God created the world in a few days or that humans evolved from organisms long ago is still a battle today. Many people believe the idea of evolution because there is evidence to support the arguments that earth slowly developed through natural selection to what we know it as today. Although, there is a…

if he were to see the modern U.S. government, he would label it as a socialist one due to its resemblance with current government help. Unfortunately, he uses the fallacy known the slippery slope in hope to validate his argument that “this is the high road to communism” (51), which is the conclusion of the slippery slope. In most of his essay he already believes that if governments around the world help the needy, they will become a socialist government. He is essentially saying that if any…

Abortion is a highly controversial topic today and many philosophers have differing opinions on the subject. As stated in The Philosophical Argument for Life, “The philosophical argument for life has two simple premises one from natural value and one from natural science.” These two differing viewpoints create a completely different way of looking at abortion, but even within these two viewpoints, lies several differing arguments. In breaking down these arguments, natural science claims that…

been the trend with material labor, companies may choose not to with intellectual work because of time zone differences, cultural and language barriers, racism or xenophobia, consumer nativism, or privacy concerns. Again falling victim to the slippery slope fallacy, he assumes that modern globalization will follow the same trend as twentieth century…

Logical fallacies are basically common errors. Everyone single person every day makes a common error. The logical fallacies that I will be discussing are the sunk cost fallacy, slippery slope fallacy, hasty generalization fallacy, post hoc ergo propter hoc, ad hominem, red herring, and the straw man fallacy. It happens to everyone of us, even though we may not even realize it sometimes. Sunk cost fallacy is getting into something and not wanting to get out of it because you may have put a lot…

States would be any different if it decided to implement such laws. After analyzing prior outcomes, it is evident that controlling PAS to ensure it does not exceed certain limits is a difficult task. The argument is a clear indication that horrible slope outcomes are likely to be experienced if PAS is legalized. Policy makers’ failure to control euthanasia and PAS does not exempt any other strategy that will be adopted from failing to exhibit negative outcomes. What is required is the…

The science behind Global Warming can be difficult to understand. In this paper, the scientific facts will be kept simple in order to accomplish the main goal of the paper. This paper has two goals, the first is to educate the reader on the effects Global Warming can have on the environment. The second, and more prominent, is arguing the question of whether suing on behalf of future generations should be allowed. It has been scientifically proven that the burning of fossil fuels harms the…

become crazy and it is not fair to accuse the husband’s attitude and abilities but rather than his good care for his own children. (9) “If you inject a monkey mother with testosterone, she becomes less interested in her baby”. Slippery slope. The reason why I chose slippery slope is because the statement exaggerates the negative side of the fatherhood activity. How come fathers do not have interest in his children? Sometimes there are some consequences a father can have less interest in his…