RE: Christian couple told they can't adopt due to their views on homosexuality.
March 3, 2011 at 5:09 pm
(This post was last modified: March 3, 2011 at 5:12 pm by theVOID.)
@Jaysyn
Wow, are you kidding?
Firstly, that page is the wrong terminology for this scenario, as you should know, there is a BIG, BIG, BIG difference between the fallacy "If we let gays marry people will soon be having sex with children" and the notion that "making decision x about position y could lead to decision x being made about similar position z"
When people commit the "slippery slope fallacy" they use an assertion of inevitability, to raise a concern based on the similarity between two positions given some action proposed to be taken against one IS NOT the same thing.
If you'd bothered to apply any of my sentences to those examples you would have seen that for yourself, I had no causal assertion.
Oh, so the legality is what matters now?
In the good ol' US of A and Nigeria then it is perfectly valid to allow people who deny gay rights to adopt children because it's illegal there, right?
Wow, are you kidding?
Firstly, that page is the wrong terminology for this scenario, as you should know, there is a BIG, BIG, BIG difference between the fallacy "If we let gays marry people will soon be having sex with children" and the notion that "making decision x about position y could lead to decision x being made about similar position z"
When people commit the "slippery slope fallacy" they use an assertion of inevitability, to raise a concern based on the similarity between two positions given some action proposed to be taken against one IS NOT the same thing.
If you'd bothered to apply any of my sentences to those examples you would have seen that for yourself, I had no causal assertion.
(March 3, 2011 at 5:00 pm)Jaysyn Wrote:(March 3, 2011 at 4:57 pm)theVOID Wrote: And it's an extremely slippery slope.
All of the examples I provided meet those criteria, do you accept all of them too?
No they don't. Since Adrian decided we can't use the plain subjective evil of racism & bigotry as a qualifier, I am just going by the legality of it. None of your examples are of bigotry against a protected class.
Oh, so the legality is what matters now?
In the good ol' US of A and Nigeria then it is perfectly valid to allow people who deny gay rights to adopt children because it's illegal there, right?
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