Duchess realises she is slowly killing herself - the Slippery Slope fallacy

It's time for radical action. Everything is about to change.

Never mind! Bruno made it seem like a dystopian nightmare and now Duchess is too afraid to change.

Throw out your kale salad and indulge with our Slippery Slope Activity Pack!

The Slippery Slope in a Nutshell

The Slippery Slope fallacy takes one small, reasonable step and turns it into an unstoppable march toward catastrophe - conveniently skipping over everything in between.

Duchess wants to go vegetarian. Bruno's response? That's just the beginning. First the meat goes, then the carbs, and before you know it you're sipping kale juice out of a watermelon. None of those steps are demonstrated. The whole chain is invented. And that invented chain - presented as inevitable - is the fallacy.

Spotting it is simple. Ask one question: Does the first step actually prove the last one? If the answer is no, someone's doing a Slippery Slope on you.

See all 24 fallacies in What Are the Most Common Logical Fallacies?

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