Ethics and Values / Unit 8 Ethics 349 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Slippery-Slope Argument
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The idea
The slippery-slope argument: licensing the clearest mercy cases builds an institution, and institutions drift — toward the unrequested, the pressured, the economical.
In practice
The worry is not tonight's patient but next decade's budget meeting: what a permission becomes when hospitals, insurers, and fatigue administer it.
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