Slippery Slope Fallacy Examples

Powerful Not Logical Critical thinking is composed of many important elements. One significant aspect of critical thinking being logical correctness. Critical thinking emphasizes the ability to analyze and evaluate an issue in order to form a sound judgment on any opinion or issue that may arise. Critical thinking becomes important in daily life when argumentation arises. Thinking critically can help during an argument to minimize logical fallacies and direct the argument toward a solution. Logical fallacy simply put is an error in the logic or reasoning of argument that makes the argument vague or unclear. This creates a hole in the argument and the presence of a logical fallacy in an argument does not necessarily make the argument invalid. Fallacious
Namely the slippery slope fallacy is one that argues the acceptance of a small event will lead to a downhill course of events ending in catastrophe. In a slippery slope fallacy, the causal event is rarely correlated with the end event. An example of this fallacy can be displayed through a tweet of propaganda written for president Trumps campaign. The ad states “If I had a bowl of skittles and told you just three would kill you. Would you take a handful? That’s our Syrian refugee problem”(20 September 2016). The slippery slope presented through this ad starts with the acceptance of Syrian refugees and ends with death. There is also no direct correlation between skittles and refugees. Returning to Trumps campaign announcement speech we can examine Trumps use of slippery slope. Trump states “America has become a dumping ground for everybody else’s problems”(16june 2016). President Trump uses a past tense slippery slope fallacy in this example. Stating that because of the past actions of countries like Mexico and Syria American is now where they discard their problem people. The correlation between refugees and a dump fallacious and lacks