Showing posts with label slippery slope. Show all posts
Showing posts with label slippery slope. Show all posts

Thursday, 21 October 2010

Grapefruit Cutters and Slippery Slopes

The High Court has ruled that grapefruit knives are knives and therefore it is illegal to sell them to under-18s. After originally being ruled as fine by three magistrates the ruling was overturned. From the BBC:

Steve Johnson, trading standards manager, said it would have set a "dangerous precedent" if the ruling had not been overturned.
The slippery slope argument apparently only works one way.