Slippery Slope (Adams’ Interpretation)
Short Definition
A reframing that rejects inevitability claims and treats escalation as momentum constrained by counterforces.
Expanded Description
Adams often criticized slippery-slope arguments as fear-based claims of unavoidable outcomes. His alternative model: changes create inertia, but inertia continues only until opposing forces intervene.
This keeps analysis probabilistic and system-based rather than binary and deterministic.
Persuasion Insight
Slippery-slope rhetoric persuades through inevitability framing. Counterforce framing restores contingency and reduces emotional escalation.
Related Concepts
Source Note
This framing appears repeatedly across blog, X, and CWSA discussions, with later refinement into an inertia-vs-counterforce model.