You base this on the slippery-slope argument: selected cases may grow into casual practice over time.
"It's a slippery-slope deal, " says Dr. Deborah Peel, founder of Patient Privacy Rights, which advocates for medical-data confidentiality.
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And there is also the slippery-slope argument: once assisted suicide is permitted for the terminally ill, vulnerable members of society, such as old people regarded as a nuisance by their families, may all too easily be pushed down it.
Of course there are difficulties framing legislation containing safeguards and of course we must beware of the so-called slippery slope.
Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany argued against the plus-one last month, calling it a "slippery slope" that could lead to a larger, full-blown playoff.
The minute you start carving out exceptions to non-violence, you find yourself on a very slippery slope.
This pro-consumer concept puts the console companies on a slippery slope toward doom.
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Despite some recent short-term positive economic signs, America remains on a slippery economic slope.
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Otherwise, we will continue down the slippery slope of slowly strangulating our ability to develop new life-enhancing, lifesaving drugs.
Once YouTube has made the decision to pro-actively censor its content, they start down a slippery slope that ends in YouTube Knows Best moral policing of every video on their site.
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During the debate public health minister Yvette Cooper made an impassioned plea for scientists to be given the go-ahead for stem cell research, denying it was a "slippery slope" to human cloning.
But right-to-life groups and religious leaders see it as the first step down a slippery slope to full human cloning.
Will this not lead down a slippery slope to genetic segregation of the sort depicted in the genetic dystopias beloved of science-fiction?
He warned that the UK could be "on the edge of a very slippery slope" towards majority control of the country's media by "a single US-based owner".
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