Down the Slippery Slope: Arguing in Applied Ethics

Routledge (1988)
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A `slippery slope' argument in medical ethics is one that opposes itself to a new proposal on the grounds that it is not per se intolerable but will lead to a situation that is. Lamb evaluates such arguments, demonstrating their centrality to the subject

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