This Is How Slippery Slopes Work: MAiD by Organ Donation
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- ▪Crossing certain bright, obvious lines that define a moral sidewalk and venturing onto slippery, darker paths usually leads to the worst possible outcome.
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This Is How Slippery Slopes Work: MAiD by Organ Donation David Strom 10:00 AM | July 24, 2026 AP Photo/Patrick Semansky Back when I was taking logic, lo those many years ago, I was taught that "slippery slope" arguments were a rhetorical trick used to sell a fallacy that taking one step down a dangerous path inevitably leads to the worst conceivable outcomes. Advertisement googletag.cmd.push(function () { googletag.display("div-gpt-300x250_4"); //googletag.pubads().refresh([gptAdSlot["div-gpt-300x250_4"]]) }); Each step, you see, is independent of the next. It sounded reasonable to me. Except... experience in my (now) 62 years (yesterday was my birthday!) has shown that the steps really are slippery when it comes to changing laws and norms governing human behavior.
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