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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
If the statue of Lee was sculpted by Rodin or Picasso it would have artistic merit, the rubbish you find in the middle of a park cranked out by some unknown graduate of the Art Institute of Pittsburgh or the like is not art, it has less merit than the rocks on sticks and that's going some.
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Artistic merit sometimes takes a very long time to become apparent.
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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
The slippery slope argument has got to be one of the least convincing ones in any argument.
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Not really. Slippery slope, itself, is not a fallacy. Sometimes one thing really does lead to another, then another.
A slippery slope argument, essentially is an examination of the consequences of the assumptions and arguments that lead to a conclusion. If we find those consequences distasteful, we may want to re-examine our assumptions and arguments.
Once we approve of artifact removal on ethical grounds, we must consider that, say, a homosexual could quite fairly perceive many religious symbols as symbols of hatred. Should they go too? Is ISIL's destruction of cultural heritage not an atrocity, since they believe it to morally sound?
A slippery slope argument asks "where do we draw the line, and how?" If we can answer that successfully, then the argument has been addressed. If we don't have a good answer, that's a problem.