countervailing

These social constraints are a countervailing force to the natural tendency Schamus describes towards the easy and self-indulgent path.

Unions are in general a force for good for their members - the problem is there is no countervailing unions to oppose the interests of the prison guard union.

Vaccines raise the same concern, of course, but have dramatic and immediately obvious countervailing benefits that justify their use.

So there needs to be a countervailing costly mechanism to prevent bees from simply over-promoting any pollen source they know.

You need countervailing size, and in the US only the federal government has it.

One potential fix is to insert a countervailing bias into political procedures to make it harder for restrictions on freedom to get passed.

Where's the countervailing supply side effect that more than makes up for this?

People with bad ideas frequently fall to silence when the discussion of countervailing good ideas makes them sound like idiots if they persist.

That's the default, so there has to be a countervailing vector.

It's worth keeping in mind that there's a countervailing trend though.

But I don't know how to counteract that besides other countervailing or attached stories.

Typical for the NYT to bury the strong countervailing evidence against the official war-mongering story in a couple of paragraphs 2/3rds of the way through the article.

To reduce monopolies, using your logic ("you need countervailing size") the government would have to get involved in all of the other industries like shipping, oil refining, TV networks, etc.

In fact, the largest countervailing incentive factor against all of those is the idea that each mining farm has a decently sized percentage of mining power and thus captures a substantial portion of the "public-good" incentive of the network not failing.

It's a truism (and/or a pat on your own back) for you to say "and people who go into extreme depth on the subject [...] tend have much more nuanced opinions." Such thinking makes it all too easy to discard countervailing opinions.