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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 4035327" data-attributes="member: 4937">Except, strictly speaking, that it is.  Because, there are almost always some circumstance we can devise that prevents something from being inevitable.  For example, you could have a hang-glider, be attached to a bunji cord, or quantum mechanics could rear its ugly head and suddenly all your rushing particles all line up and decide to rush away from the ground.A slippery slope argument doesn't need to demonstrate strict inevitability.  All it needs to demonstrate is that interupting the process is alot harder than continuing it.  For example, suppose I was creating a sum by throwing a dice.  If the number comes up 1-3, I subtract that number from the sum, and if it comes up 4-6 I add that number to the something.  It's far from enevitable that my sum will get larger and larger, and at fine scales it does not in fact do so.  But its pretty obvious that in fact, most of the time I'm on a 'slippery slope' regardless of the fact that the outcome isn't inevitable.I can't argue against your personal experience.  Since I don't know you, your personal experience is rather much an absolute conversation ender.  You believe it, and there isn't anything I can say to make you believe that what you believe has happened isn't or didn't happen.  I won't try.  For all I know, you in fact aren't even trending toward this end state and are honestly relating to me an objective description of events.Unfortunately, that doesn't really overturn my point, and in fact its well within my description that on a fine scale certain groups or individuals would be even running up the slope.</blockquote>

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