In the registration-to-confiscation scenario, only the latter two mechanisms seem fairly plausible to me; in other scenarios, others may be more plausible. And there are of course mechanisms that may ...

An explanation of the ethical argument known as the 'slippery slope'. The slippery slope argument views decisions not on their own, but as the potential beginning of a trend. In general form, this ...

The slippery slope argument views decisions not on their own, but as the potential beginning of a trend. In general form, this argument says that if we allow something relatively harmless today, we ...