Editing Slippery slope (section)

===Dam burst===
Frank Saliger notes that "in the German-speaking world the dramatic image of ''the dam burst'' seems to predominate, in English speaking circles talk is more of the slippery slope argument",<ref name="Saliger 2007">{{cite journal |title=The dam burst and slippery slope argument in medical law and medical ethics |journal=Zeitschrift für Internationale Strafrechtsdogmatik |date=2007 |last=Saliger |first=Frank |volume=9 |pages=341–352 |issn=1863-6470 |url= http://www.zis-online.com/dat/artikel/2007_9_159.pdf}}</ref>{{rp|341}} and that "in German writing dam burst and slippery slope arguments are treated as broadly synonymous. In particular the structural analyses of slippery slope arguments derived from English writing are largely transferred directly to the dam burst argument."<ref name="Saliger 2007" />{{rp|343}} 

In exploring the differences between the two metaphors, he comments that in the dam burst the initial action is clearly in the foreground and there is a rapid movement towards the resulting events whereas in the slippery slope metaphor the downward slide has at least equal prominence to the initial action and it "conveys the impression of a slower 'step-by-step' process where the decision maker as participant slides inexorably downwards under the weight of its own successive (erroneous) decisions".<ref name="Saliger 2007" />{{rp|344}} Despite these differences Saliger continues to treat the two metaphors as being synonymous. Walton argues that although the two are comparable "the metaphor of the dam bursting carries with it no essential element of a sequence of steps from an initial action through a gray zone with its accompanying loss of control eventuated in the ultimate outcome of the ruinous disaster. For these reasons, it seems best to propose drawing a distinction between dam burst arguments and slippery slope arguments."<ref name="Walton 2016" />