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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Slippery slope fallacy. Acquitting Mangione sets no harmful precedence.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It sets the precedent that you can gun someone down in cold blood and get away with it if they were "a really bad person". That is practically a textbook example of a slippery slope

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

That is practically a textbook example of a slippery slope fallacy.

FTFY: you missed the most important word in that sentence. You don't seem to comprehend that "slippery slope" is a fallacy.

The general public is capable of evaluating circumstances on a case-by-case basis. That does not change just because Mangione is acquitted. We are perfectly capable of recognizing this case is a rare exception, and not a general rule. Previous rare exceptions have not resulted in rampant vigilantism; there is no reason to believe that this case would be different.

The aphorism you should be considering is "following a line of reasoning straight off a cliff". We don't have to do that. The first three words of the Constitution tell us we don't actually have to apply a law if we really don't want to.