actor giving advice on a decision or act. Along the way, the actor must make additional choices on similar matters through which the actor enters the 'grey area' of the slippery slope. At this point, the actor potentially loses control over the direction of the arguments, thus leading to a 'fatal' outcome.

Such an argument is built up according to the following argumentation scheme: initial premise, sequential premise, indeterminacy premise, control premise, loss of control premise, catastrophic outcome premise, and conclusion. Slippery