(05-10-2022, 09:16 AM)TrivialPursuit Wrote:

(05-10-2022, 08:59 AM)mikesez Wrote: Both sides love their slippery slope fallacies.
Most slopes aren't slippery.
But some are.

(1) The left wants us to be socialists and eventually communists. There's no slope involved, it's what they want.

(2) The right has a crapton of interracial marriages so the statement is beyond ridiculous. It's inflammatory, wrong and just evil to say that's what will come next. It's just lies. The usual, basically.

(1) That's an overgeneralization.  Also a fallacy.

(2) You're right that interracial marriage won't be banned again anytime soon, same as same sex marriage won't.  There simply isn't the political appetite for either.  No one wants to legally undo marriages that are already on the books where both partners are happy.  However, the Supreme Court is supposed to be above all political appetites and apply blind, dispassionate reasoning to all cases.  The line of reasoning in the leaked Dobbs draft certainly could be applied to both gay and interracial marriage, neither of which have deep roots in American tradition or in any original concept of ordered liberty.  And frankly I can't blame anyone on the left for hysteria on these matters because time and again we see hysteria drives voters, and we know that neither side trusts the other at all. The well is just too poisoned at this point for most people to really rationally take stock of the motives of the other party. Especially when you recall how deceptive and evasive the three Trump appointees were on the subject of Roe v Wade during their confirmation hearings.

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