Sentences with phrase «start of a slippery slope»

On what grounds do we decide that we have to give everyone something so that we «have an equal field» This is social justice baloney and the start of a slippery slope conndoms don't cost much.

However, the work is very controversial, with some warning it could be the start of a slippery slope towards designer babies.

Coal is our biggest export earner, and the carbon tax and ETS to follow, are the start of the slippery slope for that as well.

The Internet Bubble and Casual Fridays were just the start of the slippery slope that led us to the wrinkled knit shirt of a mess we're in today.

«The Nest was the first thing we got, and that was the start of the slippery slope,» Lucia says.

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If only the believers would move off of 0 — but of course most will not because to do so would start them down the slippery slope...

While seemingly innocent at first glance, legalizing PAS will start us on a slippery slope that will not only take thousands of lives unnecessarily, but will exploit the poor, abuse the elderly and disabled, and ultimately devalue human life.

Christianity is a lifetime commitment to Jesus, no compromises, it is a slippery slope if WE start compromising OUR values, Jesus is the son of God, let's (US) follow his teachings, God loves everyone, so can we Christians be left alone with our beliefs please...

Once people start rationalizing the deliberate taking of life, they are on a slippery slope.

Critics of genetic modification in humans fear such a move would start something of a slippery slope leading to «designer» babies — parents could basically pick eye color, size and maybe even personality traits.

«Once you start listening to your feelings, over and beyond the plain meaning of Scripture, it's a slippery slope to hell,» they say.

Apple started down a slippery slope of remove apps based on content and not simply on operational capabilties, and they continue to muddy themselves in the process of sliding down said slope.

«I think that's a core responsibility of the team and I think it's a very slippery slope for the league office to start getting in the business of telling a coach or team what minutes a player should play.»

I was quickly starting to see this was a slippery slope and was unsure of how to navigate it all.

But once you start down the slippery slope of cutting out all the veggies to look like the Backyardigans, I wonder if you've started to lose some perspective on parental roles.

So the argument is that if we start taking away constitutional rights of people who haven't committed crimes then we start down a very slippery slope.

When Wu told an Albany radio host that upstate businesses suffered from too much «red tape,» including the state's controversial Scaffold Law, the labor - backed Working Families Party — which is backing Cuomo - Hochul, after a serious - looking flirtation with Teachout - Wu — responded by accusing him of starting down «a slippery slope that would set the labor community back decades.»

We fear that once we start a sexual encounter — even with a look — we are obligated to «finish» it, almost as if sexual contact were a slippery slope that we had better not step too close to for fear of losing all say in the matter.

And does that meal start you down the slippery slope of noncompliance that ends in failure?

Since 1972 Australian education has gone down a slippery slope where we started funding private schools for the first time on the basis of «school choice».

It is possible, but difficult to escape from the bondage of debt once you start to slide down that slippery slope.

You know, I think most bloggers start humble but then they get caught into the race of building pageviews, and then it's a slippery slope from there.

The danger of solely focusing on debt repayment over an extended period is that it «may start that slippery slope of accumulating debt again,» because you haven't achieved the right spending balance.

My problem with the feature isn't so much the feature itself, but that it's part of a continuing slippery slope of gaming leading inexerably towards a point where from the moment you start a game all you have to do is hit a big ol' «win» button and the game is over.

In this case, Retribution was the tale of when Overwatch's black ops unit lost their anonymity and Gabriel Reyes started down the slippery slope that would turn him into «The Reaper».

Google has further lead us down this slippery slope that was first started by that other collectivist garage startup organized by the pinko pair of Hewlett and Packard.

University of Minnesota law professor Dale Carpenter also sees a slippery slope at play here, but his is judicial rather than legislative and starts from the unstable middle ground on which the state based its defense of traditional marriage.

«Like most lawyers who fall into this trap I always did it with the idea that I would repay the funds, but of course once I started down this slippery slope there was nothing but failure waiting for me at the end.»

Though the Oyster community seem broadly supportive of these measures, some worried that «even legitimate criticism will be called FUD» and banned by the moderators and that an approach of «we're going to start censoring things as we see fit» was a «slippery slope to super toxicity».

Because once you start living together, as noted last week, you might find yourself on a slippery slope to a marriage that does not have much of a fighting chance.

The moment you stop exercising the muscles between your ears, intellectual stagnation starts you on the proverbial slippery slope to being «left behind» or becoming «out of date».