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...limited parents with diapers, clothing and food. Over 300,000 children of legal immigrants will become ineligible for benefits immediately. "Many of those on the right privately admit [their] real goal is to end federal spending on welfare entirely and that this is the first step on that slippery slope," wrote David T. Ellwood '75, Weiner professor of social policy at the Kennedy School. Whatever their goal, it's not helping Americans...
...problem here is not the slippery slope. It is not that if society allows gay marriage, society will then allow polygamy or incest. It won't. The people won't allow polygamy or incest. Even the gay-marriage advocates won't allow...
...than 1,000 pages of reading per week, I simply don't have the three or four hours it takes to read a trashy novel, or the 10 or more that it can take to appreciate a good one. And one novel can lead to another, creating a slippery slope...
...Once you leave it up to the whim of one individual, then it's a slippery slope," he said...
Even civil libertarians, however, are hesitant to acknowledge this. Their usual arguments against censorship are practical, not moral. They focus on the slippery slope, fearing that censorship of action movies will lead to censorship of "Schindler's List." Defense of First Amendment freedoms is generally presented as a matter of enlightened self-interest. It's expedient: If I assume power to censor your words, you may someday assume power to censor mine. Professional civil libertarians (I include myself among them) tend to be liberals; they consider race and sex discrimination immoral and not just inexpedient (a waste of human resources...