Tina Weirather from Liechtenstein on her way to winning an alpine skiing event, the Women's World Cup super-G, in Germany. (Photo: AP/ Pier Marco Tacca) If someone or something is on a slippery slope, ...

The Slippery Slope Argument is an argument that concludes that if an action is taken, other negative consequences will follow. For example, “If event X were to occur, then event Y would (eventually) ...

The Slippery Slope Argument is an argument that concludes that if an action is taken, other negative consequences will follow. For example, “If event X were to occur, then event Y would (eventually) ...

Banks on smoking inside, unthinkable fifty years ago, are now the norm. Today, things are different. New Zealand has announced plans to gradually ban the sale of cigarettes. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty ...

In the registration-to-confiscation scenario, only the latter two mechanisms seem fairly plausible to me; in other scenarios, others may be more plausible. And there are of course mechanisms that may ...

[This month, I'm serializing my 2003 Harvard Law Review article, The Mechanisms of the Slippery Slope; in Wednesday's post and yesterday's post, I laid out some examples, definitions, and general ...

Every now and then, a piece of philosophical theory breaks into the popular consciousness, such that people without any philosophical education regularly refer to it. One such theory is the rejection ...

"1. Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print." Which leads to this open question, suggested by reader Webster Marquez: "The health care debate (and ...

Amiee Ball is the Founder & CEO of JAB Consulting Group, a company guiding organizations to build successful businesses in a digital world. One of the characteristics of being human is our large ...