And they say the slippery slope is a fallacy
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Slippery Slope is a fallacy. Things don't just "happen". There is intent and purpose behind each step. NPCs do not move without programming, they stand idle. The fallacy isn't in that things continue along a path, but in thinking that there is no agency directing it.
A slippery slope fallacy situation would be the US gov't legalizing gay marriage, then going "fuck it, while we're here, since we did that, animal marriage and child marriage and inanimate object marriage too!". But it is not a slippery slope fallacy when they go "Gay marriage legalized. Done. Now back to our day job of... embezzling funds and shit?" and then someone ELSE comes along, and uses the shifted overton window as an excuse to push their own political agenda.
Most people are followers who simply go with the flow - they do whatever the collective zeitgeist deems good. As you change what's "acceptable" in polite society, you change what's "tolerable", and raise up people once on the fringes to "barely tolerable" status. The shifting of mores should happen naturally over time in various conflicting directions and find some equilibrium within a culture, but leftists are making sure culture only moves in one direction. (or more precisely in various degenerate directions that lead nowhere because all they do is deconstruct)