>the reason we have laws to keep things sane.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/06/us/california-bees-fish-court...

https://www.amazon.com/Emergency-Sasquatch-Ordinance-Actuall...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_Unit...

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/anti-jewis...

Oh yes. It's the laws that will save us, and keep everything sane. /s

Let's try this again shall we? Ethics and morality are a priori to any system of legalistic systemitization, not the other way around. You will not find a law that that "stealing is okay". You will find law that goes of it's way to decree that X is not (something morally/ethically unconscionable, but really something else).

>You can call it a slippery slope

It isn't. It's an incontrovertible case of anthropocentric thinking with a dash of self-referential inconsistency, followed by an appeal to pragmatism, stemming from a desire for nearer-term gratification at the expense of normalization of deviance/Overton window shifting.

Slippery slope/heap fallacy my ass. You aren't getting out of this with "I'm just going to disengage with a platitude." You do you, but don't delude yourself into thinking there is some inherent virtue in lowering the bar and managing to traverse the hurdle when someone else is paying the price for you not being capable of being bothered to deal with things the right way.

Well, the Sasquatch Apocalypse can be dealt with by having some good laws on the books, and this book should help: http://www.amazon.com/The-Emergency-Sasquatch-Ordinance-Actu...