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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 8503017" data-attributes="member: 6704184">Ah, okay. I was sitting here like...que!? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Fair enough. This particular disagreement isn't especially likely to take us anywhere interesting. I just don't care about preserving lists of what works influenced other works. This is possibly related to my dislike of traditionalism, and further related indifference toward traditions.I just...it's not...what the quote means, though. It doesn't suggest that one thing can lead to worse things. It states quite clearly that ignoring harm done to your neighbor is short sighted and foolish. It is not suggesting that had the Nazis changed the order of who they came for things would have gone differently. It is not a slippery slope. Well, to be fair, i find very nearly all arguments for the validity of the slippery slope to be laughable, so I'm not sure there is much discussion to be had, there. Disclaimers on music albums didn't lead to increased censorship of music, and indeed music has become more and more widely blatant in discussion of sex, drugs, violence, and other once verboten topics in the years since those disclaimers were introduced. But even if we ignore that, and look at actual cases of escalating action, which is the closest thing I can think of to a non-absurd slippery slope, like the Nazi Bar Rule, or how the nazis took the Rhineland and then looked around furtively to see if they'd get stomped on for it, and then escalated when nothing happened, the idea of comparing any such case to the topic at hand is just....wildly out of proportion. There is no similarity.</blockquote>

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