That goes to the heart of the matter. It is imperative that we don't abandon acknowledgement of reality with a dystopian destruction of language to achieve political ends.
While the slippery slope argument is technically a fallacy leading to logical extremes, we now live in a world of those extremes. To be fair and decent humans we do sometimes position ourselves on that slope where the issue becomes, how far down the slope do we dare stand?
Imagine if we were forbidden to call plugs and pipe fittings male and female.
That goes to the heart of the matter. It is imperative that we don't abandon acknowledgement of reality with a dystopian destruction of language to achieve political ends.
While the slippery slope argument is technically a fallacy leading to logical extremes, we now live in a world of those extremes. To be fair and decent humans we do sometimes position ourselves on that slope where the issue becomes, how far down the slope do we dare stand?