Example of the slippery slope fallacy: The enactment of gun control measures in any capacity directly threatens the Second Amendment. Ultimately, the government will take away our guns and we won ...

The Slippery Slope Argument is an argument that concludes that if an action is taken, other negative consequences will follow. For example, “If event X were to occur, then event Y would ...

A slippery slope fallacy involves arguing against an initial action on the basis that it will lead to a succession of ...

The anti-stem-cell slippery slope argument goes like this: If you permit scientists to destroy human embryos for the purpose of research, it’s a slippery slope from there to killing human ...

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And slippery slope risks might also be hidden—especially from average voters—by information asymmetry. Voters might not know exactly which step B would be proposed after step A is adopted.

Perhaps the fallacy most used to oppose marriage equality is the slippery slope: the argument that to make one decision necessarily leads to other decisions, each one with more egregious consequences.