What does Slippery Slope mean?
Pay no attention to the above responses for the definitions of the slippery slope are wrong philosophically. The philosophical definition of slippery slope is that in response to a specific question the answer is metamorphosed into a form that doesn’t address the question but some pseudo-question that while not stated, seems implied by the question. For instance, with restricting guns, if you asked should we restrict guns in schools and the answer was that no since restricting guns will lead to restricting free speech and we don’t want to restrict free speech so let us not restrict guns. The question was thereby diverted to a new question about free speech. Now this is a logical fallacy (I think a material type as opposed to a formal type) and something that philosophers ought to guard against. If the answerer wanted to say no he should’ve, in all logic, said no either by talking about how this restriction would impact school life or was impossible to put into practice, or he could’ve
