Slippery Slope
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Description
Asserting that a relatively small first step inevitably leads to a chain of related events culminating in some significant impact/event that would be bad, therefore the first step should not be taken. While this fallacy is a popular one, it is, in its essence, an appeal to probability fallacy.
Example
If you skip leg day today, you'll want to skip it next time and soon we'll just stop going to the gym entirely and will spend all our time playing dumb card games on our smart phones like a bunch of nerds.
Famous Examples
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When your cable's on the fritz, you get frustrated. When you get frustrated, your daughter imitates. When your daughter imitates, she gets thrown out of school. When she gets thrown out of school, she meets undesirables. When she meets undesirables, she ties the knot with undesirables. And when she ties the knot with undesirables, you get a grandson with a dog collar. Don't have a grandson with a dog collar. Get rid of cable and upgrade to Direct TV.
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When your cable company keeps you on hold, you get angry When you get angry, you go blow off steam When you go blow off steam, accidents happen When accidents happen, you get an eye patch When you get an eye patch, people think you’re tough When people think you are tough, they want to see how tough And when people want to see how tough, you wake up in a road side ditch Don’t wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of cable and use Direct TV.
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When you pay too much for cable, you throw things. When you throw things, people think you have anger issues. When people think you have anger issues, your schedule clears up. When your schedule clears up, you grow a scraggly beard. When you grow a scraggly beard, you start taking in stray animals. And when you start taking in stray animals, you can't stop taking in stray animals. Stop taking in stray animals. Get rid of cable and upgrade to Direct TV.
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When your cable goes out, you get stressed. When you get stressed, you need to get away. When you need to get away, you go for something exotic. When you go for something exotic, you get bitten by something exotic. When you get bitten by something exotic, things swell up. When things swell up, you can't go home. And when you can't go home, you become a local fisherman they call "Big Fatty Face". Don't become a local fisherman they call Big "Fatty Face". Get rid of cable and upgrade to Direct TV.
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When you have cable and can't find something good to watch, you get depressed. When you get depressed, you attend seminars. When you attend seminars, you feel like a winner. When you feel like a winner, you go to Vegas. When you go to Vegas, you lose everything. And when you lose everything, you sell your hair to a wig shop. Don't sell your hair to a wig shop. Get rid of cable and upgrade to Direct TV.
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When you have cable and your picture freezes, you get irritable. When you get irritable, your work suffers. When your work suffers, the wrong man is convicted. When the wrong man is convicted, he has time to think. When he has time to think, he thinks about you...a lot. And when he thinks about you a lot, your house explodes. Don't have your house explode. Get rid of cable and upgrade to Direct TV.
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When you pay too much for cable, you feel dejected. When you feel dejected, you need some comfort. When you need some comfort, you make a surprise visit home. When you make a surprise visit home, you discover something new about your parents. When you discover something new about your parents, you speed off with tears in your eyes. And when you speed off with tears in your eyes, you crash into a pizza shop that makes great baked ziti. Don't crash into a pizza shop that makes great baked ziti. Get rid of cable and upgrade to Direct TV.
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When you pay too much for cable, you feel powerless. When you feel powerless, you want to take the power back. When you want to take the power back, you take karate. When you take karate, you want to use your karate, When you want to use your karate, you become the Fist of Goodness. When you become the Fist of Goodness, you run along rooftops. And when you run along rooftops, you fall into a dinner party. Don't fall into a dinner partry. Get rid of cable and upgrade to Direct TV.
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When you pay too much for cable, you feel down. When you feel down, you stay in bed. When you stay in bed, they give your job to someone new. When they give your job to someone new, he has a lot to learn. When he has a lot to learn, mistakes are made. And when mistakes are made, you get bodyslammed by a lowland gorilla. Don't get bodyslammed by a lowland gorilla. Get rid of cable and upgrade to Direct TV.
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When you wait forever for the cable guy, you get bored. When you get bored, you start staring out windows. When you start staring out windows, you see things you shouldn't see. When you see things you shouldn't see, you need to vanish. When you need to vanish, you fake your own death. When you fake your own death, you dye your eyebrows. And when you dye your eyebrows, you attend your own funeral as a guy named Phil Shifley. Don't attend your own funeral as a guy named Phil Shifley. Get rid of cable and upgrade to Direct TV.
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When the cable company keeps you on hold, you feel trapped. When you feel trapped, you need to feel free. When you need to feel free, you try hang-gliding. When you try hang-gliding, you crash into things. When you crash into things, the grid goes down. When the grid goes down, crime goes up. And when crime goes up, your dad gets punched over a can of soup. Don't have your dad get punched over a can of soup. Get rid of cable and upgrade to Direct TV.
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When you have cable and can't record all of your shows, you feel unhappy. When you feel unhappy, you go to happy hour. When you go to happy hour, you're up for anything. When you're up for anything, you head to a Turkish bath house. When you head to a Turkish bath house, you meet Charlie Sheen. And when you meet Charlie Sheen, you re-enact scenes from Platoon with Charlie Sheen. Don't re-enact scenes from platoon with Charlie Sheen. Get rid of cable and upgrade to Direct TV.
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The U.S. will invite El Chapo, the Mexican drug lord who just escaped prison, to become a U.S. citizen because our "leaders" can't say no!
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Someone must not be afraid to say, "moral perversion is wrong." If we do not act now, homosexuals will "own" America! If you and I do not speak up now, this homosexual steamroller will literally crush all decent men, women, and children who get in its way ... and our nation will pay a terrible price!
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Women have curious ways of hurting someone else. They hurt themselves instead; or else they do it so the guy doesn't even know he's been hurt until much later. Then he finds out. Then his dick falls off.Context: The Blind Assassin
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Mandatory vaccine legislation will lead to compulsory organ harvesting from Americans' bodies
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If a 30-year-old man can declare himself to be a 30-year-old woman, why can’t a 70-year-old man declare himself to be a 15-year-old girl and go back to high school? The “magical thinking” buffoonery of transgenerism [SIC] is now eroding its way into “trans everything-ism,” as now demonstrated by certain individuals who believe they are animals.
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When you smoke marijuana at a young age it will usually lead to alcohol abuse and harder drugs.
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I've said it a million times: Romance languages lead to premarital sex.
Context: The Colbert Report (television show)
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