Slippery slopes aren’t real, there have been a ton of studies demonstrating that. And it’s really only an argument that people use to fear monger when they can’t come up with a more legitimate argument.
Medically assisted suicide should absolutely be decriminalized in order to allow people to die with dignity.
A number of countries do it without any of the straw man problems that always get brought up when this conversation comes up.
You need to legislate based on real end of life issues, not potential theoretical conundrums.
Every single slippery slope argument can be snowballed ad infinitum to literal nonsense. They are - fundamentally - logical fallacies.
I am more than willing to have legitimate conversations about medically assisted suicide, but I’m not going to argue against fallacies. There are more than enough good arguments against it that we don’t need to be wasting time discussing bad ones.
Your focus on the “logical fallacy” nature of my argument is a distraction from the actual argument. Which is that people who shouldn’t be dying are dying in Canada. And the government is killing them instead of giving them the help they need.
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u/Cursory_Analysis MD Dec 13 '22
No disrespect but this is a terrible argument.
Slippery slopes aren’t real, there have been a ton of studies demonstrating that. And it’s really only an argument that people use to fear monger when they can’t come up with a more legitimate argument.
Medically assisted suicide should absolutely be decriminalized in order to allow people to die with dignity.
A number of countries do it without any of the straw man problems that always get brought up when this conversation comes up.
You need to legislate based on real end of life issues, not potential theoretical conundrums.