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To: Neocon who wrote (4712)	2/21/2003 4:10:58 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7720

No, I'm not saying that the slippery slope is valid. I think it's too often a convenient but inaccurate way for people to oppose rational attempts to address problems. The pendulum was Karen's image, which is why I used it. But if I had to come up with my own, I think I would be more apt to say it's like driving a car with very sloppy steering. You start to steer left and it doesn't respond right away so you turn the wheel harder and then it turns but now it's going too far left and so you turn it back right and but it's slow to correct and you don't want to wait so you turn harder and then it goes right but too far, and so and so on. Self-correcting motion which takes a while to settle down to a straight line, then you're fine for awhile, but then the road turns because something has changed in society and you have the same problem all over again until you get it right.