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Mar. 15th, 2021 05:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
feotakahariI 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.
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Date: 2021-03-15 07:19 pm (UTC)I think you have a tendency to overuse this argument. I mean, as an object level question I'm pretty sure the answer is neither of them do, but there's nothing saying that the question has to have the same answer for both of them just because the argument use by their detractors is analogous. Maybe brains are easier to train for one thing than the other, or maybe the difference between interactive medium vs passive consumption medium matters, or maybe there's some other factor pushing in the opposite direction for one but not the other; these are all perfectly possible scenarios.