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>Metric X is high, therefore disputed policy Y is boosting metric X.

I would say that it is even worse than that, because the metric itself is disputed.

If the police were to start a policy of giving out free GPS handguns to anyone, they might justify it by saying that they have caught more murderers since the policy began. The metric itself is flawed, as it assumes that catching a murderer it good in and of itself, and is in fact better than preventing a murder in the first place.

Here, he is arguing that lawsuits are good in and of themselves, without looking into whether those lawsuits have a positive or negative effect. He merely states without justification that the lawsuits have the effect of ``protecting innovation.''



Stating something without justification is the BEST way to state it. Haha. It's "begging the question" in it's most convincing form.

At this rate, I'd rather just pay an "Innovation Tax" and be done with it.




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