The case of Ms B: suicide's slippery slope?

On the prospect of an experimental account of argumentation. Commentary: Toward an experimental account of argumentation: the case of the slippery slope and the ad hominem arguments

Citation: Boongaling JIK (2016) On the prospect of an experimental account of argumentation. Commentary: Toward an experimental account of argumentation: the case of the slippery slope and the ad hominem arguments. Front. Psychol. 7:299. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00299 On the prospect of an experimental account of argumentation. Commentary: Toward an experimental account of argumentation: the cas...

Pulling up the runaway: the effect of new evidence on euthanasia's slippery slope.

The slippery slope argument has been the mainstay of many of those opposed to the legalisation of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia. In this paper I re-examine the slippery slope in the light of two recent studies that examined the prevalence of medical decisions concerning the end of life in the Netherlands and in Australia. I argue that these two studies have robbed the slippery slope...

A Mandate for Mandates: Is the Individual Health Insurance Case a Slippery Slope?

Human gene therapy and slippery slope arguments.

Any suggestion of altering the genetic makeup of human beings through gene therapy is quite likely to provoke a response involving some reference to a 'slippery slope'. In this article the author examines the topography of two different types of slippery slope argument, the logical slippery slope and the rhetorical slippery slope argument. The logical form of the argument suggests that if we pe...

After the slippery slope: Dutch experiences on regulating active euthanasia.

"When a country legalizes active euthanasia, it puts itself on a slippery slope from where it may well go further downward." If true, this is a forceful argument in the battle of those who try to prevent euthanasia from becoming legal. The force of any slippery slope argument, however, is by definition limited by its reference to future developments which cannot empirically be sustained. Experi...