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Which of these is an example of slippery slope?
Studies show there is little correlation between playing violent video games and violent behavior.
Anti-video game activists make ridiculous arguments with little relation to reality.
If we ban video games, what’s next? Banning music? Banning TV shows? No one would be able to create anything interesting anymore.
Plenty of people play intense video games with no adverse affects, so it’s illogical to make blanket statements about them harming gamers.
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The third statement is a slippery slope:
"If we ban video games, what’s next? Banning music? Banning TV shows? No one would be able to create anything interesting anymore."
Why: it assumes—without evidence—that one action (banning video games) will inevitably lead to a chain of increasingly extreme outcomes (banning music/TV, destroying creativity). That’s the hallmark of the slippery-slope fallacy.
(For comparison: #1 is an evidence claim; #2 is an ad hominem/pejorative; #4 is an argument against overgeneralization.)
"If we ban video games, what’s next? Banning music? Banning TV shows? No one would be able to create anything interesting anymore."
Why: it assumes—without evidence—that one action (banning video games) will inevitably lead to a chain of increasingly extreme outcomes (banning music/TV, destroying creativity). That’s the hallmark of the slippery-slope fallacy.
(For comparison: #1 is an evidence claim; #2 is an ad hominem/pejorative; #4 is an argument against overgeneralization.)
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