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by ranger_danger 88 days ago
> Next step is to add your race, then income, then who you voted for

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope

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A guess for what's next is not a slippery slope argument, let alone a fallacy.
It was not phrased as a guess though, but as a "fact" that cannot be proven
From your link:

> non-fallacious forms of the argument can also exist.[7]: 273–311

Also most human communication isn't about formal logical reasoning. It's only a fallacy when applied in the form "A therefore B". We can make all sorts of useful and relevant observations about human and societal behavior that aren't logically rigorous.
Yes they can, but claiming a theoretical future event as fact (or inevitable) I would consider particularly fallacious as it's impossible to prove.

And I think history also shows these claims rarely end up happening the way these alarmists think it will.

Usually when a slope appears, regulation steps in, technology evolves, or the culture shifts, rather than society devolving into some inescapable dystopian hellscape.

Google has been following the trend of locking down Android for a decade. The slippery slope is a fact here.