AlexSchell comments on Policy Debates Should Not Appear One-Sided - Less Wrong

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Comment author: AlexSchell 25 September 2012 11:20:52PM 2 points [-]

In the real world, PhilGoetz's interlocutor was almost certainly not making the sophisticated point that in some scenarios making X illegal makes it more desirable in a way that outweighs the (perhaps low) extra costs of doing X. If the person had been making this point, it would be very hard to mistake them for the kind of person PhilGoetz describes.