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This is a slippery slope fallacy


You can call it a fallacy, but it's scientifically proven to work (see the reference in the parent comment).


My point is that these "foot in the door" changes are reasonable on their own merits without it being some ulterior motive to ask for more later. And making the assumption that there is indeed this motivation to ask for more later, and so we should disallow these requests today, is the slippery slope "what will they ask for next?!" fallacy

I agree that human psychology likely works that way, though.




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