CJ: 340 Slippery Slope 9/18/2014 Slippery Slope Many individuals come victim to a specific action or favor for another for personal gain or to be ahead of the game (cheat). Unfortunately Politicians and Law Enforcement are not exempt from the list. Slippery slope is defined as a process or series of events that is hard to stop or control once it has begun and that usually leads to worse or more difficult things or outcomes (Merriam-Webster dictionary‚ 2014). Police work in itself‚ especially
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How Slippery is the Slope? “There is no ‘slippery slope’ toward loss of liberties‚ only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.” Alan K. Simpson. The essay‚ Chapter 6: The Slippery Slope‚ is a break down on how ineffective and illogical the slippery slope fallacy is in an argument against gay marriage. Initially it presents the counter which is the slippery slope essay‚ and then it breaks it down by four categories being; (1) slipping
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Slippery Slope Argument Phil 103 19 April 2006 When one argues against an idea or action‚ one form often used is called the slippery slope argument. In a slippery slope argument‚ one takes a consequentialist view on the action in question‚ then extrapolates the further outcome sometimes based on evidence‚ sometimes not. For example‚ I might argue that my teacher should not eat chocolate ice cream‚ because of two reasons: Eating chocolate ice cream stimulates pleasure centers in the brain
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Corruption and the Slippery Slope Abstract This paper will address the “slippery slope” and how it relates to accepting gratuities. Also it will discuss theories on corruption such as the society-at-large hypothesis‚ the structural or affiliation hypothesis‚ and the rotten apple hypothesis. In policing‚ the term slippery slope applies to the corruption of morals of the officers. It basically means that corruption can begin with something that seems harmless at first‚ but will escalate
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In today’s fast pasted‚ dog eat dog world‚ parents play a major part in they’re children success‚ or at least that’s how parents see it. In his article “A Slippery Slope”‚ San Francisco Chronicle’s C.W Nevius Talks about Adults aiding and giving an unfair advantage to children and how‚ in the long run‚ it sets them up for failure. For a lot of families‚ parents helping their children with home work or a school project isn’t that big of a deal‚ most schools and teaches would agree‚ that’s fine. Some
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Chapter 3: The Slippery Slope by Edward J.Tully Article Questions 1. Based on your observations of news event during the past 10 years‚ did Tully’s prediction that‚ “there will be an upward trend of corruption and abuse of power cases” occur? Explain your answer by describing at least three specific cases of corruption and/or abuse of power that have occurred since 2003 in your community or state. Former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman was convicted on
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things don’t go as planned or a series unfortunate events happened in that day because of one incident also known as a “Slippery Slope”. Well my one incident was all caused by one nail. From messing up my mom’s car to dealing with the police and ending up inside the emergency room all caused of one mistake. That day was one of the worst days ever all because of that slippery slope. It all started‚ on a normal sunny random Thursday morning waking up from a hangover from with a face of person who had
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found several videos that give good examples of logical fallacies. All the DirecTV commercials in this compilation are good examples of the slippery slope fallacy. Each commercial shows how having cable TV can lead to a chain of events that result in bad outcomes. These commercials used the slippery slope fallacy on purpose to entertain the audience. A slippery slope fallacy claims that once you make one choice‚ a chain of events will inevitably follow. The truth is that making the first choice doesn’t
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Deltarres’ book Character and Cops he explores three hypotheses for police corruption in the United States. Some are somewhat historical‚ but they are still relevant to the problem of corruption today. The first hypothesis is called "the society at-large" theory by former Chicago Police Superintendent O. W. Wilson. Wilson was superintendent of the Chicago Police Department during the early nineteen sixties. The second hypothesis is called the "structural" theory. The third is called "the rotten apple
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and discretion in police work produces great potential for abuse. Police corruption has been a problem in American society since the early days of policing. An ancient natural tendency of human beings is to attempt to placate or win over those in positions of authority over them. This tendency is complicated in today’s materialistic society by greed and by the personal and financial benefit to be derived from evading law. The temptations toward illegality offered to police range from free
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