Attacks your logic
Slippery slope
They claim one step leads to disaster and skip the steps between.
The first tell
You feel alarmed. That feeling arrives before you can name the move.
What it sounds like
A relative says: If you let her skip one practice, she'll quit everything and end up with no discipline.
Say back
Walk me through how the first step leads to the last one.
If they push
It's obvious. It always goes that way.
Then it should be easy to show me one step at a time.
How this family is disarmed
Restate the real claim, add the missing options, or ask for the missing step.
Paid
See it in dating and at work
Context packs show this tactic in the settings where it does the most damage, and let you drill it against a timer.