College Composition / Unit 30 CMP 0735 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Slippery Slope
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The idea
A slippery slope argues that a single action will lead to a chain of increasingly disastrous consequences, taken as certain.
In practice
"If the restaurant misses your business, it may go bankrupt" leaps from one dinner to ruin without showing the links.
Where people slip
Consequences may be weighed, but each step must be evaluated for its own logic.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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