Not sure what the slippery slope is here. The linked page imagines a 4km x 4km radiator/solar array. The cross-sectional area of the array is going to be directly proportional to the probability of impacting high velocity space debris. In such an event the amount of debris that would be generated could also scale with the area of the array. This seems bad
caminante|4 months ago
e.g., Cianide seems bad, but it won't kill you if the relative volumes are small.
tl;dr: You haven't characterized the denominator.
tmvphil|4 months ago