[cowpig]

Slippery Slopes are a slippery slope.

If you reason about everything in extremes, how can any solution ever be acceptable? The worst case for all real-world solutions are always bad.

[tomkit]

You can't. What's needed is a framework and agreed-upon policy of what is acceptable due diligence in the community when taking investment money. Varying degrees of "organicness" for startups - like what you see in the meat section at Whole Foods.

[BeetleB]

He did not say "Let's reject all this because it is a slippery slope." He is merely alerting people that the slope is slippery.