& it needs to be polite?
I think ethical shield actually describes the idea well, & I've used the phrase myself casually
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I think would depend on how ethics was being invoked? I mean, you might as well officially name the slippery slope Ethics Way

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"Sorry, Ethics Way has iced over this morning and we can't go outside without sliding downhill, try again tomorrow"
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But if you're priming the pump (a
@neva9257 commonly uses) w an ethical argument in an attempt to stop critique of X, it's not a consequence -
Wow, that got garbled on edit. A PHRASE
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Yeah I like shield. The facebook eg given elsewhere fr original tweet (OT? Is that a thing?) doesn’t have a formal term- it’s just a fallacy
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Ie if something bad happens on FB, the mere fact that you can leave doesn’t follow from the badness, nor does that capacity entail that’s
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The right thing to do. Neither follow- we’d just call that “being wrong,” tho it’s related to the naturalistic fallacy/no “ought” from “is”
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