Word: sloping
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...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 answer: a police state...
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 will be permeable by some gadget recording, taping, filming or just watching you. Coloradans are no doubt pleased that the state plans to start using three-dimensional "face recognition" photos for driver's licenses in order to prevent identity-theft crimes. Yet states sometimes sell their databases to anyone...
...speed trap, I'm on the reverse of a slippery slope: Let's have more of it. If Acme in Connecticut can do this, why can't the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration get this in all cars? Road accidents kill 42,000 Americans a year. The device doesn't infringe on the innocent the way eavesdropping does. There's no downside for those driving at the speed limit, which could safely go up if there were universal enforcement rather than the spotty enforcement of an overtaxed highway patrol...
...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 when he began to organize humane little euthanasias for the very, very worst, most damaged, vegetable-like, no-quality-of-life-at-all mental cases (turnips, potatoes, a blessing, really, you understand, that they should be put out of their misery). What a slope was there. Stangl ended up as the kommandant...
...terms of public relations, using stem cells from discarded embryos is one thing, but purposefully creating an embryo only to dismantle it is something else altogether. Opponents of the research see the Virginia clinic?s methodology as the best indication yet that we are carelessly sliding down the slippery slope of destroying human life in order to advance our scientific curiosity...