How do you respond to a slippery slope fallacy?
There are several ways to debunk slippery slope fallacies:
- Identify exaggerations or leaps of logic between the initial action and the undesirable outcome.
- Ask for substantiating evidence supporting the proposed relationships between the predicted events.
- Evaluate the validity of each link in the chain of events; if any of these links lack rationality or evidence, the entire argument may be compromised.