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If We Legalize Gay Marriage, What About Incest, Bestiality, Pedophilia, etc.?

reviewed by Twitchin' Monkey

This argument goes something like this: legalizing gay marriage will lead to a slippery slope that takes us towards things like the legalization of incest, bestiality, pedophilia, etc. Rate 5 if you agree with this, 1 if you don't.

Twitchin' Monkey
02/21/2008

If We Legalize Gay Marriage, What About Incest, Bestiality, Pedophilia, etc.? 1

regardless of your stance on gay unions, to suggest it would lead to legalization of beastiality, pedophilia and incest is absurd.  The slippery slope argument is most commonly a fallacy, and especially in this case due to there being absolutely no correlation between the items mentioned. (Besides being sins). Thankfully, however, all sins do share one common factor: Forgiveness by our Father. but that's about it for this case.

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GenghisTheHun commented 641 days ago.
To call the slippery slope argument a common fallacy is a slogan. It is often true. For instance, heavy drinking of alcohol over a long period of time is the slippery slope to alcoholism. Thousands of other such examples exist.

Twitchin' Monkey commented 641 days ago.
alcoholism as a result of drinking alcohol excessivley is not a slippery slope. that's simply cause and effect. while it can be deductively valid, it becomes fallacious when it involves causal reltionships that are not certain. (alcoholoism is certainly caused by excessive drinking... legalization of beastiality is not certainly caused by legalization of gay marriage). when used informaly, with weak causal connections, it is commonly a fallacy.

magellan commented 641 days ago.
GTH, I don't think the alcohol is a good slippery slope example... It's like saying that going to college is a slippery slope towards getting a degree. For the slope argument, you need to jump from one behavior to another, don't you?
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