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One cannot help but wonder how thoughtlessly Europe's politicians have started down this slippery slope.
Will any country that legalizes therapeutic cloning inevitably slide down the so-called slippery slope and end up tolerating reproductive cloning?
The idea behind a slippery slope is that if you do x, which is acceptable, you will end up doing y, which is not.
On the logical slippery slope, you slide to the bottom and embrace the morally unacceptable because there is no way to distinguish it from an acceptable practice.
You can slide down the sociological slippery slope from one practice to the other - even if the two are conceptually different - just because the existence of one creates a social climate receptive to the other.
Even though I do not believe in a slippery slope from therapeutic to reproductive cloning, a society's laws should give voice to its values.
Critics warn of a slippery slope.
Thoughtful theologians can distinguish among psycho-sexual issues; in practice, however, fear of a slippery slope to calamity prevails.
Nonetheless, critics fear the slippery slope.
That could take all of us to the edge of a slippery slope.
Do other British publishers really believe that silence will protect them from the slippery slope?
This slope offers President Barack Obama a real opportunity to restore the federal government's revenue base to what it was in the mid-1990's.
If, instead, the US faces a fiscal slope, then people who refuse to consider raising taxes - namely, Republicans in the US Congress's House of Representatives - have a very weak hand indeed.
Then, as America heads steadily down the fiscal slope in early 2013, the House Republicans would have a choice. Do they vote, week after week, against tax cuts that would help 100 million Americans, while the economy deteriorates around them?
Fortunately, the fiscal slope gives Obama the opportunity to bring it about - and even to write some history in the process.
Taken to its extreme, America's accusations risk pushing the world's two largest economies down the slippery slope of trade frictions, protectionism, or something even worse.
The world is on a slippery slope toward nationalism and exclusion.
Indeed, this is not the first time that Pakistan's relations with the US have been on a slippery slope.