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RFK Jr. wants a wearable on every American — that future’s not as healthy as he thinks
(www.theverge.com)
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Slippery slope is a type of logical fallacy. You’re jumping from something that could be „let’s subsidise MiBand straps” to a full blown surveillance state.
Except I'm not. I'm talking about a process that, unlike a slippery slope, is driven (one might say externally) by bad-faith actors with enormous capabilities, strategic planning, and a big fat track-record of desiring and actually implementing heavily extended surveillance capabilities (maybe still not a full-blown surveillance state, but this was never part of my argument).
By the way, slippery slope in itself is only a figure of argument and is not automatically a logical fallacy, no more than any other empirical argument is. It all comes down to the plausibility of the concrete empirical points being made.
Using ~~empirical~~ anecdotal evidence is a type of logical fallacy too.
Oh my.