Slippery Slope

The "slippery slope" fallacy is an argument that says that after a small step, a chain of events will occur and lead to a major event. For example, in my Opinion Editorial, I said that when people use their cell phones while on a date, couples break up.  In saying that just the rude use of cell phones will eventually lead to a breakup is an example of a slippery slope because it disregards the other circumstances and events that have to happen that leads to the breakup and just blames the separation on cell phones. Don't worry, I fixed this problem in my final draft. Some other examples of slippery slopes can be found in those humorous DIRECTV commercials that are on TV today.  You know the ones that start out by saying "When your cable company keeps you on hold you get angry. When you get angry, you go blow off steam..." then the commercial progresses in consequence severity and eventually ends with "When people want to see how tough (you are), you wake up in a road side ditch. Don't wake up in a roadside ditch and switch to DIRECTV." ( It is kind of hard to explain so here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIv3m2gMgUU ) This commercial is the perfect example of a slippery slope because it is saying that if you have a different cable provider, a chain of events will happen just from your cable company putting you on hold and you will end up in a ditch. The slippery slope fallacy is everywhere in the world today.