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Mar. 15th, 2021 05:19 amI mostly argue against terrible anti arguments, because those are the ones I tend to see. If I was going to argue against coherent anti arguments, I’d use a sort of opposite to the slippery slope argument.
People used to argue that Mortal Kombat would train your brain to kill people. Now they don’t argue that. It wasn’t “disproven.” It simply fell out of fashion. I’m fine with that, since Mortal Kombat didn’t train my brain to kill people.
People argue that Gary Coleman/Macaulay Culkin underage RPF will train your brain to hurt people. I don’t have proof this is true or false. But there’s no logical reason it would have a different effect on your brain than Mortal Kombat. Either they both train your brain, or neither of them do.
Slippery slope would be that antis will want to ban Mortal Kombat. But they won’t. That argument is done with. I could easily get away with saying “fuck you, got mine!” and enjoy MK in peace. But I’m not comfortable with pretending I’m somehow morally superior to people whose interests are more cringe than mine. That’s what I mean by the opposite of slippery slope. I want to climb back up the slope to where everyone gets treated as decently as I do.
People used to argue that Mortal Kombat would train your brain to kill people. Now they don’t argue that. It wasn’t “disproven.” It simply fell out of fashion. I’m fine with that, since Mortal Kombat didn’t train my brain to kill people.
People argue that Gary Coleman/Macaulay Culkin underage RPF will train your brain to hurt people. I don’t have proof this is true or false. But there’s no logical reason it would have a different effect on your brain than Mortal Kombat. Either they both train your brain, or neither of them do.
Slippery slope would be that antis will want to ban Mortal Kombat. But they won’t. That argument is done with. I could easily get away with saying “fuck you, got mine!” and enjoy MK in peace. But I’m not comfortable with pretending I’m somehow morally superior to people whose interests are more cringe than mine. That’s what I mean by the opposite of slippery slope. I want to climb back up the slope to where everyone gets treated as decently as I do.
