Only formal fallacies are valid. Everything else that gets called a fallacy is simply rhetoric. Nine times out of ten when a progressive dismisses something as a fallacy, they are just trying to stop people from noticing reality.
If the slippery slope is a fallacy, why is it so prophetic? The sexual revolution and gay rights has led to pedophilia. Women's rights has led to women leaving their husbands and murdering their children. SCOTUS legalizing contraception by fiat led to legalizing abortion as Justice Black predicted.
The old religious right actually underestimated how slippery the slope was. They would tell you to stop being hyperbolic if you could tell them about current year.
Fundamentally, I don't give a shit that you like it as a rhetorical device. If you use it as a rhetorical device, then you admit that if you Overturn Roe v. Wade, you re-establish slavery.
Now for everyone else:
Stop using a real fallacy as a rhetorical flourish.
Fallacies are errors in validity. Validity & Truth-value are independent.
A series of conjoined logical implications into a single implication is not a fallacy, it's boolean logic. The fallacy is when you assert that the thing which is not an implication is an implication. The fallacy normally arises when your argument is a series of conjoined, disjunctive implications (which you can't simplify to a single implication), being treated as a conjoined implications (which you can simplify to an implication). Meaning, you can't say if you go to the bank you'll be shot by the guard, because that's not a 1:1 relationship, like the ignition on your car.
"HURR DURR THE SLIPPERY SLOPE ISN'T A FALLACY"
Yes it is, and this is why.
slippery slope is just like conspiracy theories
they're spoiler alerts
Only formal fallacies are valid. Everything else that gets called a fallacy is simply rhetoric. Nine times out of ten when a progressive dismisses something as a fallacy, they are just trying to stop people from noticing reality.
Just because a Leftist abuses something, doesn't mean that thing is wrong.
Don't blame guns for bank robberies.
Don't blame fallacies for Leftists.
If the slippery slope is a fallacy, why is it so prophetic? The sexual revolution and gay rights has led to pedophilia. Women's rights has led to women leaving their husbands and murdering their children. SCOTUS legalizing contraception by fiat led to legalizing abortion as Justice Black predicted.
The old religious right actually underestimated how slippery the slope was. They would tell you to stop being hyperbolic if you could tell them about current year.
Asked and answered..
Fundamentally, I don't give a shit that you like it as a rhetorical device. If you use it as a rhetorical device, then you admit that if you Overturn Roe v. Wade, you re-establish slavery.
Now for everyone else: