I found this excellent article at All Unkept, Luke Plant’s blog : What’s so bad about the Nazis anyway?. It is a great application of slippery-slope logic in hindsight, and makes you question whether slippery-slope arguments are really that worthless. Recommended.
(begin sarcasm) Oh, yes indeed! We must have our universally accepted bad guys and universally accepted victims. That way we don’t have to waste time actually discussing facts, and can get straight into mud slinging and name-calling. Surely that’s obvious to everyone with any sort of intelligence! (end sarcasm)
Beware the thought police.
Great post – thanks for bringing this to our attention.
As I stated on the post, “I’m still waiting for the proposal to grind up the deformed and disabled babies into a mush and feed them to the poor and hungry ala Jonathan Swift. ;-)”