Ethics According to Merriam-Webster slippery slope is defined as a process or series of events that is hard to stop or control once it has begun and that usually leads to worse or more difficult behavior. In the law enforcement field‚ gratuity‚ which is the receipt of free meals‚ services‚ or discounts‚ goes hand in hand with the term slippery slope. Many think it is both unethical and immoral to except gratuities on and off the job. Gratuity by others is viewed as “A relatively innocent
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authorized to serve.” Cohen felt that it can be dangerous that the officers accept these gratuities because what might start without intent on the part of the officer may be become a patterned expectation and can lead to targeting and misuse of power if the gratuity stops. On a different view‚ Kania (1988) writes that police "should be encouraged to accept freely offered minor gratuities and ... such gratuities should be perceived as the building blocks of positive social relationships between our
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corruption‚ however‚ is not always clear. In Recognition of what some have called corruptions slippery slope most police departments now explicitly prohibit even the acceptance of minor gratuities. Slippery slope perspective holds that even small thank you’s accepted from members of the public can lead to more ready acceptance of larger bribes. An officer who begins to accept‚ and then expects‚ gratuities may soon find that his or her policing becomes influenced by such gifts and a larger one soon
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over it‚ but arresting them would not only get the drugs off the street‚ but it will also possibly help those being caught using the substance. There are rehabilitation programs out there to help them. If I chose to let it slide‚ it could be a slippery slope and lead to me letting it slide more often and letting criminals and possible addicts go. It would
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servants and would provide them with gifts and gratuities even though the police were public servants and not private servants. Local businesses‚ restaurants‚ and hotels would also curry favor with the beat cop expecting better service from him in return by paying the officers. Other times officers were provided with reduced cost/free meals or alcohol. Owen believed that this pattern of behavior would often lead to even worse corruption‚ "a slippery slope‚" such as aiding organized crime or street level
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Question 1 | | 0 / 1 point | “Since more than a million dollars are needed to staff a properly run cruise in the Caribbean‚ it must be that every employee on board makes more than a million dollars on each cruise!” commits the fallacy of | | slippery slope | | | equivocation | | | amphiboly | | | composition | | | division | Question 2 | | 0 / 1 point | Is the sentence “Man sanctioned over Lewis assault” amphibolous? | | It is amphibolous | | | It is not amphibolous |
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Olivia Scheyer 2-21-15 Bioethics Slippery Slopes The debate around euthanasia is a tricky topic from the perspective of both patients and doctors. Should it be allowed‚ and if so‚ when is it appropriate to practice? Should doctors be held to moral standards when practicing euthanasia‚ and if so‚ which ones? Is killing a patient any different than letting a patient die? Daniel Callahan has responded to philosophers such as James Rachels in his article‚ “When Self-Determination Runs Amok‚” and
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his claim that we should be wary about the censorship of pornography is that negative side effects are likely to occur if pornography is censored. Wicclair focuses his argument on the slippery slope effect‚ which he claims is a negative effect of the censoring of pornography. In this context‚ the slippery slope effect is defined by Wicclair as "...a serious risk that once any censorship is allowed‚ the power to censor will‚ over time‚ expand in unintended and undesirable directions (p.382)
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More Fallacies Quiz I (See related pages) Results Reporter | | Out of 3 questions‚ you answered 2 correctly with a final grade of 67% | | | | | | 2 correct (67%) | | | | 1 incorrect (33%) | | | | 0 unanswered (0%) | | | Your Results: | The correct answer for each question is indicated by a . | ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form Please answer all questions. | 1 CORRECT | | It is fair to say that all rhetorical devices tempt
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The Slippery Slope Many people worry that if voluntary euthanasia were to become legal‚ it would not be long before involuntary euthanasia would start to happen. This is called the Slippery Slope argument. In general form it says that if we allow something relatively harmless today‚ we may start a trend that results in something currently unthinkable becoming accepted. Those who oppose this argument say that properly drafted legislation can draw a firm barrier across the slippery slope. The
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