Originally Posted by Kriston
LOL!

If it helps, Lauren, that's a slippery slope logical fallacy he's using: take one step and you tumble down the slope until you DIE!

Since he seems to use it a LOT, I'm thinking that it might be good to give it a name when you call him on it, just to make it easier to call him on it in the future. wink

Having just read Seligman's The Optimistic Child [verdict: interesting, but not a must-read] I suggest calling it "catastrophising" since that's apparently what it's called when you put the worst possible interpretation on any minor set-back, assuming it will lead to catastrophe.

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