As a conservative, you can be confident of two things when you make a slippery slope argument in relation to any left-wing idea or policy. First, that you will be condemned as a paranoid lunatic and promptly laughed out of the room. Second, that you will almost certainly be right. Every week, yet another thing happens in reality that people on the Right, in the not so distant past, warned would happen if we stayed on the current trajectory.
Precedents do matter, which is no surprise to some of us. If something is justified on a certain basis, then everything else that can be justified on the same basis will probably one day occur. If you tear down the statues of Confederate generals because they were racist, then all of the other statues of “racist” historical figures will come down. If you say that marriage is only a consensual contract between people who love each other, then eventually you’ll have children with three polyamorous fathers listed on their birth certificates. If you say that it is possible and valid for a person to choose his own gender, then eventually you will have thousands of children undergoing gender transitions. If you justify broad masking mandates during a pandemic, you will end up with masking mandates even after the pandemic. It does not take a fortune teller to predict these future events. It requires only a basic grasp of logic. Evidently, one thing really does lead to another.
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