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What is a slippery slope fallacy?

What is a slippery slope fallacy?

In a slippery slope argument, a course of action is rejected because, with little or no evidence, one insists that it will lead to a chain reaction resulting in an undesirable end or ends. The slippery slope involves an acceptance of a succession of events without direct evidence that this course of events will happen.

What fallacy sets up a weak version of another's argument?

the straw man fallacy