Is "slippery slope" more often true or a fallacy?

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I find it to be less of a fallacy and more often a truth when applied logically. Look at some examples:

- Pedophiles openly have parades and read books to children (unstigmatized homosexuality/gay marriage)

- Saying anything bad about Muslims in Britain/Germany can get you arrested (hate speech laws)

- Niggers and Illegal immigrants depend on the taxpayer to live (welfare and ACA)

- No fault divorce has led to a massive spike in divorce rates and have eroded marriage as an institution (feminism)
 
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most people completely ignore the idea behind it being a fallacy and just pretend it means any sort of social deline is a fallacy, when in reality it's saying you can't argue A will lead to Z without arguing the steps between them.
The go to example to dismiss slippery slope is " if gays can marry eventually people will marry dogs". The gap is so absurdly vast that it's nonsensical, well if you ignore furries. The meaning behind the example though is by skipping the steps between the top and bottom of the slope you can argue almost anything can happen because you don't have to map out any points of the inbetween.
its not the delince thats the fallacy, it's the leap in logic that is.
"Accepting gay marriage lead to open pedophile" would be concidered an argumentative fallacy because the large leap
"Accepting gays marriage leads to government forced acceptance of gays, which leads to socially forced acceptance of gays, which leads to fringe sexualitys forcing them self under the gay rights umbrella, Which leads to pedophiles getting socially forced acceptance under gay rights" is not an argumentative fallacy because you're show exactly what whould lead to what.
 
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i hate pro-debaters. "this fallacy, that fallacy, i wish i could suck my own phallusy." and they still manage to reach the most retarded conclusions possible.

"because it's disgusting, because they commit loads of crime, because they stink and because i fucking hate them" are the only arguments you need to win a debate in 2026.
 
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A slippery slope is subjective, so the examples provided here are biased.

There is no known quantity for this to be measured, it depends on the specific slippery slope in question.

As for under what topics this is more prevalent to be used for, probably politics, which doesn't really tell you anything substantial.
 
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As an argument to do or not do something it's pretty useless but as a lens for looking at the way activist movements operate over time it's very informative.

I think it's the result of building institution to regulate solutions to specific problems. Once they achieve their basic goals they never have a victory party and disband, they go on to the next iteration and the next phase and the next level to keep the lights on and the cash flowing and it all becomes a never ending spiralling slide into hell.

Look at how we went from the Gay & Lesbian Alliance to MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ because no one knew when to quit.
 
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