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INTRO: If there is any hill I am prepared to die on it is this: the slippery slope is not a logical fallacy but a factual description of how progressive politics works.
Identify a status quo you want to destroy, argue for a modest-sounding tweak, promise unshakeable safeguards, win and begin undermining those safeguards almost immediately, before eventually pushing for a much more radical change in law or policy.
This is exactly what happened with the Gender Recognition Act 2004. It was sold as a very minor piece of legislative tinkering, all about making life a little more bearable for a tiny number of gender dysphoria sufferers. Opponents were being alarmist, there was no intention to redefine sex or womanhood, and besides the safeguards wouldn’t allow that.
Within no more than 15 years, the Conservatives, Labour, the Lib Dems and the SNP were all committed to ‘reforming’ the 2004 Act to water down or remove its safeguards altogether. Of course, I don’t need to tell you that.
Their efforts eventually came to dominate government and civil society, the rights of women were demeaned and disregarded, and almost every institution in public life went along with it until the Supreme Court got involved.
The status quo now in the firing line is the moral and ethical consensus that medical professionals should not kill their patients or help their patients to kill themselves. Tomorrow, MSPs will debate the Assisted Dying Bill at stage one. The legislation was brought by deputy presiding officer Liam McArthur and shares some similarities with Kim Leadbeater’s Bill, which is currently going through Westminster.
If passed, it will allow the NHS to hand out killer drugs to patients... (MORE - details)
RELATED: Half of people fear timing of assisted dying law alongside benefits cuts, poll shows
INTRO: If there is any hill I am prepared to die on it is this: the slippery slope is not a logical fallacy but a factual description of how progressive politics works.
Identify a status quo you want to destroy, argue for a modest-sounding tweak, promise unshakeable safeguards, win and begin undermining those safeguards almost immediately, before eventually pushing for a much more radical change in law or policy.
This is exactly what happened with the Gender Recognition Act 2004. It was sold as a very minor piece of legislative tinkering, all about making life a little more bearable for a tiny number of gender dysphoria sufferers. Opponents were being alarmist, there was no intention to redefine sex or womanhood, and besides the safeguards wouldn’t allow that.
Within no more than 15 years, the Conservatives, Labour, the Lib Dems and the SNP were all committed to ‘reforming’ the 2004 Act to water down or remove its safeguards altogether. Of course, I don’t need to tell you that.
Their efforts eventually came to dominate government and civil society, the rights of women were demeaned and disregarded, and almost every institution in public life went along with it until the Supreme Court got involved.
The status quo now in the firing line is the moral and ethical consensus that medical professionals should not kill their patients or help their patients to kill themselves. Tomorrow, MSPs will debate the Assisted Dying Bill at stage one. The legislation was brought by deputy presiding officer Liam McArthur and shares some similarities with Kim Leadbeater’s Bill, which is currently going through Westminster.
If passed, it will allow the NHS to hand out killer drugs to patients... (MORE - details)
RELATED: Half of people fear timing of assisted dying law alongside benefits cuts, poll shows
