Pressure
Slippery slope
Claims one small step will inevitably lead to an extreme outcome.
“Lower the voting age to 16 and soon twelve-year-olds will be running for office.”
- How to spot it
- A chain of “and then… and then…” with no evidence for any link.
- How to answer it
- Ask for the evidence behind each step of the chain.
Practise against it
Favoured by The Closer.