{"id":28725,"date":"2015-11-30T01:00:50","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T06:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=28725"},"modified":"2015-11-20T07:10:10","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T12:10:10","slug":"qotd-that-dangerous-slippery-slope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/11\/30\/qotd-that-dangerous-slippery-slope\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: That dangerous &#8220;slippery slope&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I know a lot of people worry about slippery slopes; give the culture warriors an inch and they\u2019ll take a mile. I think this is a very backwards way of looking at things. Like, the anti-gay people talked about a slippery slope and fought desperately hard against gay marriage, even though it was pretty hard to find anything actually objectionable about it other than that it might be on a slippery slope to worse things. That desperate fight didn\u2019t delay gay marriage more than a few years, and it didn\u2019t prevent whatever gay marriage was on a slippery slope to. What it did do was <em>totally discredit conservatives in this area<\/em>. Now any time anyone makes a family values argument, even a good family values argument, people can say that \u201cfamily values\u201d is code for homophobia, and bring up that family values conservatives really <em>have<\/em> held abhorrent positions in the past so why should we trust them now? It gave liberals huge momentum, and if there is a slippery slope then all that opposing gay marriage did was destroy the credibility of anybody who could have stopped us going down it.<\/p>\n<p>Opposing a good idea on slippery slope grounds is a moral failure <em>and<\/em> a strategic failure &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Scott Alexander, <a href=\"http:\/\/slatestarcodex.com\/2014\/05\/30\/the-wonderful-thing-about-triggers\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Wonderful Thing About Triggers&#8221;, <em>Slate Star Codex<\/em><\/a>, 2014-05-30.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know a lot of people worry about slippery slopes; give the culture warriors an inch and they\u2019ll take a mile. I think this is a very backwards way of looking at things. Like, the anti-gay people talked about a slippery slope and fought desperately hard against gay marriage, even though it was pretty hard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,41,13],"tags":[431,196,190],"class_list":["post-28725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-conservatism","tag-lgbt","tag-samesexmarriage"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7tj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28726,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28725\/revisions\/28726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}