slippery slope

a course or situation regarded as easily or inevitably leading to further decline or deterioration

See slippery slope in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
A tricky precarious situation, especially one that leads gradually but inexorably to disaster: [Without] a clear boundary to confer personhood on a human being … we approach a slippery slope that ends in the disposal of inconvenient people” (Steven Pinker).

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