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[–]insta 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

If a group concludes that pre op trans(wo)men are (wo)men, then that opens up a very steep and very slippery slope.

The vast majority of people's politics and ideas don't go past what you can easily slap on a bumper sticker.

People think "slippery slope" is an entirely dismissible """logical fallacy""" because they cannot think abstractly for a single moment.

[–]Three_oneFourWanted for thought crimes in countless ideologies 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The logical fallacy is, "we let the gays marry, now men will be marrying horses!" The fallacy happens where there is no evidence. Unfortunately, that fallacy is so overused that everyone dismisses legitimate examples of slippery slopes without a second thought