Old Rockin' Dave
June 14, 2013
I am a lifelong opponent of appeals to “the slippery slope”, but
there is one exception and that is the taking of human life. Take one,
no consequences, and the taking of the next gets easier, and once a
society goes down the path of deciding some lives are not worthy of life
(“Lebensunwertes Leben”, in the original German) it gets only too easy
to go a little farther and decide that the original batch was not far
enough, and that if it was in society’s interest to have gotten rid of
them, then we can go down the path a little more and get rid of some
more “parasites” and “non-productives” and while we’re at it, one or
another minority group that “harms social cohesion” or some such.
June 15, 2013
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herr doktor bimler
June 15, 2013
I am a lifelong opponent of appeals to “the slippery slope”, but there is one exception
Now you’ve made your first exception, the second one will be easier to make. And the next one, easier still. It’s like a low-friction inclined plane.
Now you’ve made your first exception, the second one will be easier to make. And the next one, easier still. It’s like a low-friction inclined plane.
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Take one, no consequences, and the taking of the next gets easier
It's just like that Stang feller warned us!
Old Rockin' Dave
Really? "Old Rockin' Dave?"
None of us are in any position to cast nasturtiums at the lameness of other people's nym, sir.
IF that is his real name!
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For the life of me, I cannot understand why the process described herein did not come to be known as the "Low Friction Inclined Plane". The world is full of alliteration fascists...
"Greased gradient" would have been good. Mulligan Request Form #14/6b has been filled in and submitted.
For Smut: explaining voice explained.
Gah. I followed the link and read the post and thread. Yuck.
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