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by SilasX 3167 days ago
That's the point: the anti-taxer's error is to so tenuously double down on believing they can explain away any public goods problem by saying it doesn't happen in practice. Asteroid defense is just the most extreme example.

It is a similar error to double down so hard on torture never being able to elicit truthful, reliable information.

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> tenuously

strenuously? (they're almost opposites)

No, I mean that he doubles down despite the position being tenuous. (May not be the clearest usage of the term.)