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If the slipper slope isn't real, what's this? (0.02 BAC)



 
 
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Old March 21st 08, 04:44 PM posted to rec.autos.driving
Ed Pirrero
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Default If the slipper slope isn't real, what's this? (0.02 BAC)

On Mar 17, 1:34*pm, (Brent P)
wrote:
>
> Now sure, it's just a bill right now and there are all sorts of wacky
> bills. Of course nobody would have dared to introduce such a bill back
> in 1988, let alone 1968.


And of course, the end result is...?

That's right - A RETURN TO PROHIBITION!!!!

Since you can't reason like an adult, talking to you like one is a
waste of time.

Here's your reality check, doofus:

http://www.fallacyfiles.org/slipslop.html

The issue is, and always will be, causality. Engaging in post hoc and
slippery slope fallacy interchageably makes your arguments, at best, a
muddle of adolescent thinking.

E.P.

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Old March 24th 08, 04:50 PM posted to rec.autos.driving
Larry Bud
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Default If the slipper slope isn't real, what's this? (0.02 BAC)

> >"[MADD has] become far more neo-prohibitionist than I had ever wanted or
> >envisioned ...,"

>
> Candy is exaggerating, as well. True prohibition outlaws the
> manufacture, transport, sale, possession, and consumption of alcohol
> no matter where you are or when you drink it.


Give it time!!

We've got laws banning people from smoking in their own property
(vehicle) and restaurants banned from cooking food certain ways (trans-
fats).
 




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