Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Slippery slope arguments!

If we start providing healthcare for poor people, then we'll have to provide healthcare for poor, sick people, then poor, terminally ill people and then poor, dead people. Since dead people aren't allowed to own property, all of them are poor. Trying to revive them from the dead will bankrupt us!

If we build a fighter jet, then we'll have to sell them to offset the cost of building it, but then we'll have to develop a new fighter jet in case we start a war with the people we just sold them to. (Whoops that one came true)

If we ban abortion, soon we'll have to ban all babies exiting the uterus and no babies will be born! Women will stop becoming pregnant since it will be a death sentence and human civilization will end.

If we don't accept this spec argument because we don't know what it means, then we would have to disregard all argumentation where we don't know what it means. Soon all of the stupid kritiks (boundaries, empire, neo-marxist feminism) would have to be dropped because they make no sense! Then debate would die because people would start communicating and stop competing.

Hmmm... last one was the weakest. Help me out here.

No comments:

Post a Comment