servants and would provide them with gifts and gratuities even though the police were public servants and not private servants. Local businesses‚ restaurants‚ and hotels would also curry favor with the beat cop expecting better service from him in return by paying the officers. Other times officers were provided with reduced cost/free meals or alcohol. Owen believed that this pattern of behavior would often lead to even worse corruption‚ "a slippery slope‚" such as aiding organized crime or street level
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Question 1 | | 0 / 1 point | “Since more than a million dollars are needed to staff a properly run cruise in the Caribbean‚ it must be that every employee on board makes more than a million dollars on each cruise!” commits the fallacy of | | slippery slope | | | equivocation | | | amphiboly | | | composition | | | division | Question 2 | | 0 / 1 point | Is the sentence “Man sanctioned over Lewis assault” amphibolous? | | It is amphibolous | | | It is not amphibolous |
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Olivia Scheyer 2-21-15 Bioethics Slippery Slopes The debate around euthanasia is a tricky topic from the perspective of both patients and doctors. Should it be allowed‚ and if so‚ when is it appropriate to practice? Should doctors be held to moral standards when practicing euthanasia‚ and if so‚ which ones? Is killing a patient any different than letting a patient die? Daniel Callahan has responded to philosophers such as James Rachels in his article‚ “When Self-Determination Runs Amok‚” and
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his claim that we should be wary about the censorship of pornography is that negative side effects are likely to occur if pornography is censored. Wicclair focuses his argument on the slippery slope effect‚ which he claims is a negative effect of the censoring of pornography. In this context‚ the slippery slope effect is defined by Wicclair as "...a serious risk that once any censorship is allowed‚ the power to censor will‚ over time‚ expand in unintended and undesirable directions (p.382)
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More Fallacies Quiz I (See related pages) Results Reporter | | Out of 3 questions‚ you answered 2 correctly with a final grade of 67% | | | | | | 2 correct (67%) | | | | 1 incorrect (33%) | | | | 0 unanswered (0%) | | | Your Results: | The correct answer for each question is indicated by a . | ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form Please answer all questions. | 1 CORRECT | | It is fair to say that all rhetorical devices tempt
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* Stress is "a force that is external in nature that causes strain upon the body‚ both physical and emotional." * Two models regarding the use of illegally seized evidence are the crime control and due process models. * The Law Enforcement Code of Ethics is felt to achieve bringing about self-respect among officers; contributing to feelings of mutual respect among police‚ and contributing to the professional image of law enforcement. * Police legal duties can arise from many sources‚
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The Slippery Slope Many people worry that if voluntary euthanasia were to become legal‚ it would not be long before involuntary euthanasia would start to happen. This is called the Slippery Slope argument. In general form it says that if we allow something relatively harmless today‚ we may start a trend that results in something currently unthinkable becoming accepted. Those who oppose this argument say that properly drafted legislation can draw a firm barrier across the slippery slope. The
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is the slippery slope that could possibly occur if euthanasia was legalized. Professor Phil D. Frey states that “We need the evidence that shows that horrible slope consequences might occur‚ as noted earlier‚ does not constitute such evidence.” In other words Phil D. Frey is saying it is possible that slippery slope effect can occur‚ but nothing shows that it is likely to happen. In Oregon‚ there are many steps before one can qualify for euthanasia. These steps ensure that no slippery slope can occur
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logical fallacies stood out to me. Two logical fallacies that King used in his essay are loose or hasty generalization and slippery slope. Logical fallacies are very common in writing styles to convince or trick the causal reader. You can find examples of logical fallacies in advertisements‚ newspapers‚ books and essays. King use loose or hasty generalization and slippery slope in his essay in order to convince his readers by using strong fallacies to prove his arguments. In the first sentence Stephan
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surrogates and repetition Fallacies that involve appeals to emotion‚ some 100% Score: 15 / 15 non-emotion-based 10 11 12 13 14 15 fallacies‚ and two wrongs make a right The ad hominem fallacy‚ the genetic fallacy‚ straw man‚ false dilemma‚ slippery slope‚ misplacing 100% the burden of proof‚ and begging the question Concept: The stages of decision making Mastery 100% Questions 1 2 3 1. Which stage of the decision-making process precedes the stage of generating alternative solutions to
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