7. Fairness Slippery Slopes In the last lecture, we talked about conceptual slippery slope, fallacies. Those are fallacies that we can easily make when we neglect the fact that the phrase a significant difference is a matter of degree. So if we treat the phrase a significant difference as a yes or no matter, either a difference, a significant, or it isn't, then we'll be tempted into a conceptual slippery slope fallacy. [00:00:30] Today. I want to talk about another kind of slippery slope fallacy that we'll call a fairness, slippery slope fallacy. And let me explain what a fairness, slippery slope fallacy is. Once again, by giving an example. Suppose I'm teaching a course with a bunch of students. I'm grading their work in the course. [00:00:51] Now it's obvious that if a student gets 100% on all the assigned work in the course, then that student deserves an a plus in the course, they deserve the highest grade. Okay. But now suppose another student does. Almost exactly as well ...