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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 7766735" data-attributes="member: 16814">Sigh.  It's an informal fallacy, which means it's not automatically wrong, but is instead an argument that doesn't support the conclusion.  A true fallacy is an argument that invalidates the conclusion while an informal fallacy doesn't say whether or not the conclusion is wrong, just that the argument used doesn't support it.And slippery slope is one of those 'maybe' informal fallacies.  It really depends on the form of the argument.  If I say that if A happens, and then explore a solid causal chain that leads to B possibly happening, that's not an informal fallacy.  If I instead say that if A happens then this tangentially related and more extreme event B will happen, that's a slippery slope fallacy (informal).I really do wish people would stop name checking the informal fallacies as if doing so was actually an argument.  If you can't articulate the weakness of another's argument without reference to a named fallacy, you shouldn't be using the fallacy.Further, the God of the Gaps is actually a theological argument that dismisses the argument that God requires gaps to exist, not an argument that God exists in the gaps, which it's widely mistaken for.  As you seem to have, given your usage above.Again, if people would actually articulate where they see flaws in other's arguments rather than throw out buzzword fallacies, discussions would be better.  And I say this as a recovering named fallacy-thrower.</blockquote>

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