• Norgur@fedia.io
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    6 months ago

    “is the world better off without me” checklist:

    1. Are you Adolf Hitler?
    2. If previous answer was no: Are you Joseph Stalin?
    3. If previous answer was no; The world is better with you.
  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Persecution by religious extremists is one of the few places “slippery slope” arguments make sense.

    If they say their religious text being against LGBTQ issues means they have to be against it too…

    Well, there’s a whole bunch of really fucked up shit in all the major religious texts. Especially the Abrhamic ones.

    So they’re either lying, or there’s a lot more shit they’re just waiting to force on everyone else.

    You could be straight as an arrow, but you probably don’t want your parents deciding who you’ll marry based on how many goats they’ll get.

    Or them taking it all the way back to Abraham himself and saying if a father hears a voice saying “kill your family” you’re supposed to fucking listen to it. Never forget that’s the starting point of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

    A schizophrenic who killed his brother and stopped from killing a son at the last possible moment.

    • bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      6 months ago

      See it’s not really a slippery slope argument though. It’s kind of like the pro life crowd. Saying if they get one thing that it will lead to others isn’t a slippery slope, it’s that we know the ultimate goal. Zero abortion for any reason. There is no assumption of it cascading, it’s understanding that it’s a stepping stone because their intentions are very clear. This is the same with anti-LGBT folks. They just want LGBT people to not exist. Whether that means they want to be able to pretend they don’t exist or other more heinous intentions such as “conversion” or even death, we know the ultimate goal. Zero rights, zero representation, and zero reminder they exist.

      TL;DR: The laws these groups want to pass are the first or second of many. It’s a march towards a clear end goal. We don’t need to argue that’s it’s a slippery slope because they’ve clearly laid out the theoretical path they want to take.