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Such laws just can't be made to work. Laws can't fight reality.
by 1996 8y ago
Such laws just can't be made to work.
Laws can't fight reality.
- darawk 8y agoThat's pretty clearly false. See: China, North Korea.
- 1996 8y agoAny artifical norm can try to fight reality for some time, but reality eventually ends up winning. You can't make something work by going against reality. You can pretend it will work by itself - for a while. This is usually called "delusion" and it takes a lot of resources to maintain it.
- speedplane 8y agoMany artificial norms have stuck around for millennia in the face of reality. Many don't want to wait around that long.
- mirimir 8y agoSure, but France is very close to other countries where DNA testing is legal. No?
- darawk 8y agoMy point is that the idea that you can't deny reality is false. Governments do it all the time, very successfully, for long periods of time. If the argument is "Western, liberal democracies cannot deny reality for an extended period of time", you're probably closer to making a correct statement, but still false. See: Gulf of Tonkin, Lusitania. You might say "But we know the truth of those incidents!", but of course, I can only cite examples for which we now know the truth. The ones for which we do not are, by definition, uncitable.
- mirimir 8y agoOK, sure. But France can't prevent DNA testing. And I wonder, what is it such an issue in France? I wonder if rates of misattributed paternity are higher there.
- darawk 8y agoI'm not sure. Seems like a cultural quirk. The French are somewhat infamously adulterous. So much so that Francois Hollande had a mistress that was super well known and didn't negatively impact him at all. So ya, maybe misattributed paternity is pretty common there.