Dennie Mayhone Intro to Philosophy Response paper #2 4/4/01 10 Examples of the Worst Kinds of Fallacies Slippery Slope Legalizing marijuana will mean increased availability, leading to increased drug use by teenagers, more addiction, more drug-related crime, more deaths of young people, the destruction of our public school system, and eventually the collapse of our society. -Republican platform on the issue of legalizing marijuana. The "slippery slope" of non-automatic consequences is clear here: increased availability, use, crime, and …showed first 75 words of 1350 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1350 total…therefore less crashworthy, vehicles. -- Sam Kazman, General Counsel, Competitive Enterprise Institute (Washington). What consequences might one seek to avoid by preventing the greenhouse effect - i.e., the rising of the oceans, change in weather patterns, etc.? If predictions concerning these consequences are reliable - how do they compare with the problem of increased automobile fatalities? This red herring is there only to distract from the argument about ways to prevent the greenhouse effect.