Slippery Slope and Appeal to Consequences

Some fallacies trade on predictions about the future — claiming that a particular action will inevitably lead to dire outcomes, or that a claim must be true or false because of its consequences. The slippery slope fallacy asserts an unfounded chain of events, whilst the appeal to consequences judges the truth of a claim by its real or imagined outcomes. Both are common in LNAT passages, particularly those discussing policy, law, and ethics.

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The Slippery Slope Fallacy

A slippery slope argument claims that one action will inevitably trigger a chain of events leading to an extreme and usually negative outcome, without providing adequate evidence for each step in the chain.

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