The noncentral fallacy is about inappropriately treating a noncentral member of a category as if it were a central member. But your argument is that taxation isn’t a member of the category “theft” at all. “Taxation is theft, but that’s okay, because it’s not the common, bad kind of theft” would be more in line with Scott’s responses.
I think one thing going on here is that normally, the word “theft” comes tacked on with metadata about “and theft is bad, boo” (the way most people use words)
The claim “taxation is theft” is specifically meant to associate it with “and that’s bad, boo”.
The noncentral fallacy is about inappropriately treating a noncentral member of a category as if it were a central member. But your argument is that taxation isn’t a member of the category “theft” at all. “Taxation is theft, but that’s okay, because it’s not the common, bad kind of theft” would be more in line with Scott’s responses.
I think one thing going on here is that normally, the word “theft” comes tacked on with metadata about “and theft is bad, boo” (the way most people use words)
The claim “taxation is theft” is specifically meant to associate it with “and that’s bad, boo”.