@ScottAdamsSays
Still struggling with your 'slipper slope' position - you seem to be defining it in a different way than society normally does. Example: When Moynihan released his report in the 60s on the breakdown of the family, people said we were on a slippery slope....
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That would depend on what's causing it. Bad slippery slopes can often be directly traced to discrete actions, such as removing safeguards. Example: Venezuela disarming the public = ceding monopoly on legal violence to the govt, which allowed the govt to abuse that monopoly.
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THIS is a great example of a slippery slope. Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership detail 13 places where governments disarmed and then killed a million or more of their citizens in the 20th cent. You can bet the first calls for gun grabbing were met with SS arguments
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In an earlier text I connected the SS to a chg of mindset. Moynihan: We've always discouraged women from having kids outside of marriage. If we accept the opposite idea, we are on a slippery slope to disastrous consequences (3 million inmates, 70% of blacks born to single moms)
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I guess you could say it works in the other way as well. 'If mindset changes RE X, things will improve until we see a golden age' :) RE trends, I think SS args are by nature predictive. Another common aspect: it is often argued that the mindset change will make reversal harder.
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