Understanding Slippery Slope Fallacy

In a slippery slope fallacy, a person makes a claim that one event leads to another event and so on until we come to an undesirable ____________.

Along the way, each step or premise in the faulty logic becomes more and more ____________.

• A. Likely

• B. Unlikely

• C. Predictable

• D. Definite

It is important to think about what ____________ or ____________ supports the link between each step (choose all that apply).

• A. Fiction

• B. Evidence

• C. Solution

• D. Logic

Which of the following is a slippery slope fallacy? Put a check mark in the box next to the correct answer.

• If we let this child bring the permission slip late, we need to have a conversation with them so they do not continue to miss deadlines.

• If we let this child bring the permission slip late, there is no reason to ever set a deadline for anything again!

Read the slippery slope fallacy below: "If you have one cookie tonight, you will just want to eat 10 cookies tomorrow, and before you know it, you will have 15 cavities." How can you tell this is a slippery slope fallacy?