This is not the “slippery slope argument”. This is the floodgates argument. And this works very well.
I checked out every single link that you’ve offered and they simply don’t either back up your position on the o.p. or are totally irrelevant to the topic of the thread.
That apart I agree that the U.C. officer has made statements in favour of the Animal Activists, which is hardly surprising as he fell in love with one of them and married her.
So any statements that he made should be received with just the teensiest weeniest pinch of salt.
Really? I would say that a series of stories noting that undercover officers have both inflicted harm and suffered harm as the result of their actions, actions that were fully compliant with their superiors’ orders, would be very relevant to this discussion. So none of them are either unsupportive of casdave’s position or irrelevant to the discussion.
This is a consideration, but a “pinch of salt” is different than the complete dismissal you offered.
Try looking up "Irony ", in the dictionary.
Isn’t that the very slipperiest of slopes? Who knows what might be planned?
I just included the above fragment so casual readers wouldn’t mistake your overall position due to my snipping your full quote. 