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545. Enough with the Slippery Slopes!

Freakonomics Radio

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The Slippery Slope Argument

The slippery slope argument is pretty much everywhere these days, at least in the media and in politics. If we're just willing to cancel student loan debt, why can't we just cancel credit card debt? Mortgage payments, again, it just leads to the slippery slope. We have rounded up a philosopher, some legal scholars, and an anti-smoking activist to try to understand how the slope got so slippery.

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