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A comment on Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since the 1960s? (2009). Parent comment
Pick your fallacy:
- We've spent billions of dollars on this stuff. Surely we wouldn't have done that unless it worked.
- We've spent billions of dollars on this stuff. It'd be a shame to let that go to waste.
- The TSA isn't perfect, but for every 30 handguns they let slip through they also successfully catch 1. That one could have taken over a plane.
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Pick your fallacy:
- We've spent billions of dollars on this stuff. Surely we wouldn't have done that unless it worked.
- We've spent billions of dollars on this stuff. It'd be a shame to let that go to waste.
- The TSA isn't perfect, but for every 30 handguns they let slip through they also successfully catch 1. That one could have taken over a plane.
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