Hey, there really is a slippery slope!
Eugene Volokh (who's for gay marriage) points out that it's silly to deny certain legislation or decisions as not leading to a "slippery slope," because in fact they do.
I have no problem with this. Hell, I fully embrace it. Gay marriage sends us on a "slippery slope" to all sorts of things. So what. If you want gay marriage, you can't deny the slippery slope. Slippery slopes lead to all sorts of things, good and bad and are a part of society and even progress. Haven't these people ever seen Connections?
I have no problem with this. Hell, I fully embrace it. Gay marriage sends us on a "slippery slope" to all sorts of things. So what. If you want gay marriage, you can't deny the slippery slope. Slippery slopes lead to all sorts of things, good and bad and are a part of society and even progress. Haven't these people ever seen Connections?
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Any expansion of rights is a slippery slope. The slippery slope happens for one of two reasons: either people stop caring about that range of issues or people have been itching to move on it for a while.
But it's not as though making gay marriage legal will make human-animal marriage legal directly. It could conceivably bring up the legal issue and force us to make a decision on it, but hopefully, we would oppose it in a great majority.
In a way, a splippery slope is not so bad. It faces us with individual manageable choices and we, as a people, can declare that there is a line and where that line is.
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