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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 8944388" data-attributes="member: 6796468">Your basic premise is "It's easy to not slide down until it isn't" and then you posted a couple of hyperbolic examples which set the tone of your post and provide a basis for everything else that follows. Even when you acknowledge they're hyperbolic you state that they illustrate the point.And no. People haven't "Fallen" down slippery slopes throughout history. People walked perfectly flat paths toward their goals. Stated or not, history is full of people seeking to do great and terrible harm to those they disagree with. Again, I don't want to get into politics, but read up on Nationalism and Authoritarianism as inciting causes of both the issues you brought up. There was no slippery slope involved.You then chose to go into the more "Reasonable" angle of people intentionally baiting posters and manipulating moderators to stifle dissent. Which is just such a fantastically insulting direction to go with it, intentional or not. The immediate assumption that even the EXISTENCE of (+) threads is a tool that will result in people trying to get people banned for wrongthink. Like. C'mon, Man.I will never understand why people think taking any kind of progressive approach to social issues in gaming (or literally any other aspect of life) is going to instantly leap to the end-game of "No one is allowed to say anything!" in a perfect "Slippery Slope" every freaking time.</blockquote>

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