It actually is, because I'm focused on the slipping into toddlerdom part. Toddlers don't care about liability, but we do. Some mildly overprotective liability doctrine (won't someone think of the children?!) isn't enough to form the slippery slope that is being implied here.
A lot of people here are saying they resent that they're being treated like toddlers. It's not a prospective slippery slope, it's one we've already slid down.
In considering whether it's overprotective, you need to account for the products and industries that never came to exist, and not just the ones that were destroyed, like https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2013/02/av... (first paragraph).
