The Slippery Slope

Unless there is a full proof way to read the thoughts of potential recruits we can only go by other effective testing methods to try and select a pool of good ethical police officers. This view may fall into the fatalism category but does have a valid argument to made. “Fatalism insists that police departments are no more than microcosms of society itself. Since the general public includes a great range of excellence, mediocrity, and depravity, every police department must be expected to…

Introduction Euthanasia is formally known as the act of a physician or health care personnel actively choosing to end the life of someone after the patient has requested the end of their life. Euthanasia is a practice which throughout the years has been on the rise in countries where the practice is legal, including but not limited to Belgium and the Netherlands. From the article, Attitudes and Practices of Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide in the United States, Canada and Europe, it is…

George can argue against what John is doing as unethical because it is illegal and under the ethical framework of slippery slope and overvaluing outcomes. Under the ethical framework of slippery slope, John by lying to George even that he was just dealing with returns from earlier and that it was a regular routine done at night, is unable to recognize his own unethical behavior and may just continue his illegal…

activities, hence the “slippery slope” effect. As mentioned before, law enforcement officers are constantly being watched and therefore expected to be professional and above reproach. Many police departments have adopted a zero tolerance policy on accepting gratuities in order to maintain a high regard of integrity of their officers and to protect the image of their department. This prohibition, as Coleman (2004) suggests, is intended to eliminate the risk of officers heading down the slope by…

Is it okay to take the life of another, but only if they are in agonizing pain and terminally ill to quickly end the pain or is it better to let them die after days, weeks, months, even years of torture? What dignifies whether or not assisted suicide is right or wrong, the morals of humanity, or the laws set by religious community? It can’t be at all kind to let close relatives and even strangers live through the most terrible pain imaginable, while we sit and watch, not truly aware of the…

In My Brilliant Friend, Ferrante reveals that the change from childhood to adolescence is scary and upsetting because the breakdown of innocence occurs. In the first chapter of Adolescence, Lila’s experience of “dissolving margins” (2) is symbolic of what occurs in every child during puberty. Furthermore, Ferrante symbolizes change with the motif of fire, which is seen in the fireworks display. During the display, Lila feels disgust towards the changes she sees in her brother and repulsion…

appeal (pathos) effectively when they write “to abide by this principle, we must leave animals free–to overrun and destroy our property, to eat our food, even to kill our children” (BROOK). However, it can be countered that Epstein and Brook use a slippery slope fallacy and an either/or fallacy because they give the readers a false impression that if animals have rights, they will eat our food, kill our children and ultimately be the sole cause to the extinction of the human race without…

euthanizing. On the other hand, however, others argue that letting terminally ill people have the choice to end the incurable suffering is compassionate. In sum, then, the issue is assisted suicide. Though many people assume that assisted suicide is a slippery slope to euthanasia, when there are safeguards in place to prevent it from becoming euthanasia it will end the suffering of terminally ill people. Most people feel that people that commit suicide are selfish because they are not thinking…

Ironically, the title chosen for the pamphlet contains the term ‘slippery slope’, one of the forms of fallacy, a rhetorical device. The website “AP Glossary” defines a slippery slope fallacy is an “assumption that once started, a situation will continue to its most extreme possible outcome”. The title foreshadows the direction of the FRC’s ensuing message. The pamphlet’s copy…

Through “Census, Map, Museum” Anderson argues that nationalism is a product of how people think about their country. These thoughts are created by censuses, maps, and museums. Developed by the British, censuses in the Middle Eastern Asian states categorized by race while steadfastly ignoring religious affiliations. This classification made it possible for a “systematic quantification” of arbitrary racial lines ultimately leading to the development of segmented groups of the population…