{"id":4292,"date":"2013-06-27T12:55:32","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T17:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4292"},"modified":"2013-06-27T12:55:32","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T17:55:32","slug":"slippery-slopes-to-rationality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4292","title":{"rendered":"Slippery slopes&#8230; to rationality!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s slippery slope week at the NS.\u00c2\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a humorous slope argument at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/articles\/gay-marriage-opponents-warn-supreme-court-ruling-c,32967\/\">The Onion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Condemning the decision as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153dangerously reasonable\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153beyond level-headed,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d vocal opponents of same-sex marriage strongly cautioned that this morning\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Supreme Court rulings supporting gay rights could put the United States on a one-way, slippery slope to rationality.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ha! Well, you know, the acceptability of a slippery slope argument depends on how likely the consequent is made by the antecedent.\u00c2\u00a0 Not seeing that, really.\u00c2\u00a0 There are lots of bumps on that staircase.\u00c2\u00a0 Mostly comprised by the voting decisions of the denizens of Texas, Utah, Alabama, and so on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s slippery slope week at the NS.\u00c2\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a humorous slope argument at The Onion. Condemning the decision as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153dangerously reasonable\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153beyond level-headed,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d vocal opponents of same-sex marriage strongly cautioned that this morning\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Supreme Court rulings supporting gay rights could put the United States on a one-way, slippery slope to rationality. Ha! Well, you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4292\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Slippery slopes&#8230; to rationality!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slippery-slope"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4293,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4292\/revisions\/4293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}