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[–]8bitgay 19 insightful - 2 fun19 insightful - 1 fun20 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

People love calling things slippery slopes. And sure, sometimes they are slippery slopes, but sometimes they're just reasonable analysis of patterns.

[–]bopomofodojo 19 insightful - 2 fun19 insightful - 1 fun20 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

"Slippery slope" is only a fallacy when the logical leaps are nonsensical.

Otherwise, it's just foreseeing reasonable outcomes.

[–]fuck_reddit 16 insightful - 4 fun16 insightful - 3 fun17 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

I call it “the consequences of actions”