Slippery Slope Fallacy Question

[Key Peninsula Redneck]

I'll keep this short and simple.

Can the slippery someone use a slippery slope fallacy to justify doing something, with positive things inevitably following it?

What I am trying to ask is: Can a slippery slope fallacy be composed of inevitable positive consequences? That would be in order to provide an incentive for doing something.

For Example, if I were to say," Electing George Bush will inevitably lead to lower unemployment, lower taxes, and fewer incidents of terrorism."

Would that be as much a slippery slope as,"The US shouldn't get involved militarily in other countries. Once the government sends in a few troops, it will then send in thousands to die."

If the post is confusing, I apologize in advance.

 

[Pint0 Xtreme]

I'll keep this short and simple.

Can the slippery someone use a slippery slope fallacy to justify doing something, with positive things inevitably following it?

What I am trying to ask is: Can a slippery slope fallacy be composed of inevitable positive consequences? That would be in order to provide an incentive for doing something.

For Example, if I were to say," Electing George Bush will inevitably lead to lower unemployment, lower taxes, and fewer incidents of terrorism."

Would that be as much a slippery slope as,"The US shouldn't get involved militarily in other countries. Once the government sends in a few troops, it will then send in thousands to die."

If the post is confusing, I apologize in advance.

I'm not sure if you grasp the full concept of slippery slope. The slippery slope fallacy is a series of illogical conclusions built on one and another. Referring toe the GWB argument, that would NOT be slippery slope. It could be a false statement but not a slippery slope fallacy.
The second argument falls more in line of slippery slope and it sounds more like "Once the government sends in troops, they will want more troops. Then after they send more troops, they will want more and more troops. Then all the soldiers will preform inadequately due to the lack of support and thousands will die."
Notice a string of inconsistent and illogical arguments.

 

[Key Peninsula Redneck]

I'm sure if you grasp the full concept of slippery slope. The slippery slope fallacy is a series of illogical conclusions built on one and another. Referring toe the GWB argument, that would NOT be slippery slope. It could be a false statement but not a slippery slope fallacy.
The second argument falls more in line of slippery slope and it sounds more like "Once the government sends in troops, they will want more troops. Then after they send more troops, they will want more and more troops. Then all the soldiers will preform inadequately due to the lack of support and thousands will die."
Notice a string of inconsistent and illogical arguments.

Thanks for the information, but it did not really help answer my question.

I'll see if I can think up a better example.

Once the government starts pulling troops out of Germany, they will want to pull more troops out of Germans. They will keep pulling more and more troops out of Germany. Eventually, they will close down all the based in Germany and relations with Germany will get better because there are no more U.S. troops in that country.

Is that as much a slippery slope as this:
"Once the government sends in troops, they will want more troops. Then after they send more troops, they will want more and more troops. Then all the soldiers will preform inadequately due to the lack of support and thousands will die."

 

[Pint0 Xtreme]

Thanks for the information, but it did not really help answer my question.

I'll see if I can think up a better example.

Once the government starts pulling troops out of Germany, they will want to pull more troops out of Germans. They will keep pulling more and more troops out of Germany. Eventually, they will close down all the based in Germany and relations with Germany will get better because there are no more U.S. troops in that country.

Is that as much a slippery slope as this:
"Once the government sends in troops, they will want more troops. Then after they send more troops, they will want more and more troops. Then all the soldiers will preform inadequately due to the lack of support and thousands will die."

Pretty much.

 

[joebudda]

You better watch it, if you go to school the next thing you know you might become more knowledgeable.

 

[Key Peninsula Redneck]

You better watch it, if you go to school the next thing you know you might become more knowledgeable.

LOL! Thanks, I'll be careful.

 

[seebs]

This is a fascinating question, because I've never really seen it applied. The presumption of the slippery slope is that it's "downhill" - things will get worse.

In fact, the slippery slope is at issue in many arguments for doing things, but I never thought of it that way before. Interesting!

 

[aeroz19]

Good points, everyone... *thinking*