HSS 4107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Canadian Medical Association Journal, American Medical Association, Involuntary Euthanasia

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Do acts through a series of small steps y, we end up with a result z. Because z is immoral, we must now deem the original action x immoral. Causal: x leading to y leading to z. Meaning that the vulnerable will be open to abuse. Both casual and normative must be true for a slippery slope to be true. Z must be reckless for this to be credible but the hard part is proving that it"s reckless. We think we can predict the future but we can"t. If we decriminalize something, it doesn"t necessarily lead to more: the great argument. That a particular change in one"s practices will lead to a slide into moral deterioration that ends up with us committing nazi style atrocities. Faulty because: the premise is weak because it is a gross exaggeration (immodest). The statistics also do not line up. Nazi germany is the number one comparison that slippery slope advocates make.

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