(August 30, 2023 at 9:49 am)FrustratedFool Wrote: I said that believing X is bad. The reason, as I've outlined multiple times, is that X leads to bad things (usually behaviours, though even just believing a falsehood like creationism is bad in that it harms the believer).
https://www.grammarly.com/blog/slippery-slope-fallacy/
The slippery slope fallacy is a logical fallacy [url=https://www.grammarly.com/blog/logical-fallacies/][/url]that claims one event or action will lead to another, more extreme event or action. This could be by directly causing that follow-up event, setting a precedent for it, or simply creating an environment where that follow-up event can occur. Other names for the slippery slope fallacy include the dam burst fallacy, domino fallacy, and thin end of a wedge.
Short story short, when you assume things, you make an ASS of U and ME.
