Word: slipperyness
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It seems to me that Acme has quantifiable reasons for charging speeders for speeding. An SUV hurtling along at 83 m.p.h. rather than 65 m.p.h. costs more in wear and tear, accidents, insurance and lives. What critics quickly devolve to is the slippery slope: Where will it all end? Their...
Usually I'm a sucker for the slippery-slope argument. On cloning, I'm in favor of ending it now before we have three grandmothers at Thanksgiving dinner, all faintly resembling Martha Stewart. On privacy, you don't have to be Ray Bradbury to be concerned that soon every membrane...
On the evil side, I see Franz Stangl. Stangl was an ordinary Viennese policeman, a church-goer and family man, who, at the time of the Anschluss in 1938, was recruited by the Nazis to work as a "security" officer at a mental institution. He stepped onto the slippery slope...
New techniques for gathering the cells are in quiet development; scientists are generally wary of disclosure, because public reaction is difficult to predict. Revelations that scientists at a privately-funded Virginia fertility clinic are growing human embryos with the intent of harvesting stem cells have provoked widespread hand-wringing, among...
Del Ponte has already expanded the indictment against Milosevic to cover some 300 newly confirmed Kosovar victims, and expects to add further charges to account for the Serb police's recent discoveries of mass graves. She has also signaled her intention to indict Milosevic for war crimes perpetrated during the...