If you want to call it a slippery slope, then more power to you. But checks and balances have had to be created throughout history - hedge your bets, protect yourself from yourself, take heed, yada yada yada. Christ, even no limit holdem has a slippery slope called Big Slick. It's a phrase that if it had no merit would not be used today. Oh, and by the way, I wouldn't learn my lifes lessons from a site called
http://www.fallacyfiles.org, or are you believer of urban legends too? Oh, and lastly, I believe that this "slippery slope" had a hand in Microsoft losing.