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A slippery slope is fallacious if there's no argument for the the progression down the slope. Lots of valid arguments take the form of a slippery slope.

In this case, there is in fact an escalating progression of bad things happening in Airbnb rentals; in rough order:

* Criminal enterprises buying entire buildings and turning them into unlawful hotels

* Renters trashing Airbnb rentals

* Floating brothels

The leap from here to "gambling" doesn't sound too crazy; in fact, gambling seems more innocuous than a floating brothel.



Yes, it's a good thing we've solved all the crimes with actual victims so we can move on to regulating behavior between consenting adults.


I'm guessing the neighbors of these short term rental properties didn't consent to Airbnb's customers rezoning their neighborhoods for them.


I'm guessing that since the person in the article was informed by the police and not her neighbors, that no one had any clue.


How does that conclusion make even the smallest bit of sense to you?


The point is that any inconvenience to neighbours from such a 'brothel' is hypothetical - nobody even noticed that it was there, so they definitely weren't harmed in any way.


There isn't anywhere near enough information to ascertain whether neighbors noticed.

I have no idea who my neighbors are. If they weren't actually here, in the building, I'd have no way to contact them whatsoever. That doesn't mean I don't notice Airbnb tenants.


Illegal gambling is hardly a problem anymore since there are so many legal places to gamble. I think she just picked a random item from her mental bucket of "things that sound scary and bad".




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