Wonder
who sat behind Sylvia Lim and got hit by the piece of paper that she
crushed and threw behind without looking in a demonstration of her
tantrum in Parliament.
That day there was a need for a cleaner to pick up litter from the floor in Parliament.
Workers' Party opposed the bill to empower community volunteers to book those who litter.
Daniel Goh employed the slippery slope argument to back their opposition.
It goes something like this. Today you empower volunteers to book people for littering in the neighbourhood, tomorrow you will be empowering volunteers to book people for improper recycling in the bins downstairs, next you will be empowering volunteers to book people for this, for that,....etc. Next thing you know, we have become a police state!
He said the slippery slope is very real.
No, it isn't. We call his argument a 'slippery slope fallacy'.
It is a fallacy because there is no reason to believe that empowering volunteers to book litterbugs will INEVITABLY lead to the chain of events he claimed.
Tsk, tsk.
Want to recognise the slippery slope fallacy in Daniel Goh's reasoning?
Read here: http://www.nizkor.org/
Photo credit: Fabrications About The PAP
That day there was a need for a cleaner to pick up litter from the floor in Parliament.
Workers' Party opposed the bill to empower community volunteers to book those who litter.
Daniel Goh employed the slippery slope argument to back their opposition.
It goes something like this. Today you empower volunteers to book people for littering in the neighbourhood, tomorrow you will be empowering volunteers to book people for improper recycling in the bins downstairs, next you will be empowering volunteers to book people for this, for that,....etc. Next thing you know, we have become a police state!
He said the slippery slope is very real.
No, it isn't. We call his argument a 'slippery slope fallacy'.
It is a fallacy because there is no reason to believe that empowering volunteers to book litterbugs will INEVITABLY lead to the chain of events he claimed.
Tsk, tsk.
Want to recognise the slippery slope fallacy in Daniel Goh's reasoning?
Read here: http://www.nizkor.org/
Photo credit: Fabrications About The PAP
