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Remember, slippery slope is a fallacy.

I think the admins are sending the right message - This subject is blanket banned because it's too hard to sort out the shades of gray, and it brings a unique risk to the community that other things (drugs, racism, etc) just don't.

I agree that they'll be playing 'ban the sub' whack a mole, but that will happen to any UGC site of scale, the important thing is (ironically) not to let a community coalesce around the subject that's big enough to get reddit targeted by the media or some zealous prosecutor trying to score political points (See craiglist's adult section...)

It would be nice to see them lay down some firm rules that say "OK: These things are blanket banned, these things are fair game just don't break US laws; these things are open season". It would be doable to segregate Jailbait / Trees / Atheism along those lines and remove some fears.

* Edited for grammar, typos, wording of first sentence.



> a false fallacy

The philosophy degree in me screams that there's something wrong with that phrase.


That's what I learned it as years ago, in hindsight it is an odd phrase.

Wiki calls them 'Conditional or questionable fallacies', which is a bit less punchy. Do you have a better name?


Just "fallacy".



>Remember, slippery slope is a fallacy.

Not arguing with you on the merits of the OPs argument, but a slippery slope argument is not necessarily a fallacy.

It's only a fallacy if one doesn't logically connect the first event with each subsequent event in the chain.

You can check wikipedia if you'd like some examples of fallacious and non-fallacious slippery slope arguments.




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