Slippery Slope Fallacy

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A slippery slope is a type of informal fallacy that arises when the arguer claims that a chain of causal events will necessarily occur. Hence, a slippery slope is committed when a person argues that some event or practice he or she disapproves of will trigger a sequence of events that will ultimately lead to some undesirable consequences. The reasoning here is that since we do not want the undesirable consequence, we ought therefore to oppose the initial event or practice. The fallacy in the reasoning consists in the false assumption that the chain of events will in fact occur.