"The motives which lead men to do injury and commit wrong actions are depravity and incontinence. For if men have one or more vices, it is in that which makes him vicious that he shows himself unjust"

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"the licentious in regard to bodily pleasures... Similarly, each of the rest of mankind is unjust in regard to his special weakness."

I suppose this is why sexual harrassment, deepfake porn, flashing, etc. tends to strike such terror in the hearts of sane women.

People will tend to break moral or criminal laws in accordance with their vices and such men have exposed their particular vice by breaking a rule of some sort, so we are inclined to expect worse from them in the same direction.

This is the origin of "ick" or "creepiness", I suppose.

The slippery slope isn't a fallacy: it's addiction and normalization. The addict, the morally bankrupt, and the Machiavellian all have their reasons to push us down that slope.

Yes.