I told a demoncrat their policy was a slippery slope, and she said that was the slippery slope fallacy. Basically, "Just because you say it's a slippery slope doesn't mean it is." It should instead be called the "nuh-uhh" fallacy, or the "let me slide down this slope, damnit" fallacy. This is what they're teaching kids in debate class now-days.

"Judge, and be prepared to be judged." - Ayn Rand

To be fair, it's bad form to name fallacies in arguments. Unless they're funny ones like argumentum ad Hitlerum.

@npub1hyqr...k7cp often likes participating in good debates and I like reading 'em =)

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You should read On Doing the Right Thing, a collection of essays by Albert Jay Nock. In one essay he talks about this sort of thing. He opines that a soceity is immature if it can't have conversations. Archive: https://archive.org/details/OnDoingTheRightThing Mises: https://mises.org/library/book/doing-right-thing https://mises.org/mises-daily/decline-conversation