Slippery slope implies that a minor action will have major or crazy results. An example of a slippery slope would be like saying if we don’t have rules in school, everyone is going to end up in prison. While having rules provides structure, people will be just fine without certain rules. Having this in your essay will weaken your argument because people will know that you’re jumping to conclusions and making things seem worse than they really are. This will make people not want to believe you.
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I learned that a slippery slope implies certain actions will bring on more extreme ones. There are times that I have experienced this logical fallacy and I find it comical what people say. A different example of a slippery slope would be allowing students to redo a test, they will want to redo any assignment. This example fits because they’re assuming a student would do poorly on an assignment and feel the need to do it again.
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I learned that slippery slopes can jump to extremes and give the reader a negative impression of the idea stated. Another example of a slippery slope that I’ve heard of was if a teacher was to say an assignment was due and a student didn’t turn it in on time. The teacher would then tell the student that if they never turn in the material on time they will struggle in everything else in life and probably never succeed. This is an extreme case that jumped to conclusions, thus becoming off-putting.
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