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Choosing to get a fake divorce so that you can game the system as much as possible isn't punishment; it's probably fraud. You could also choose to relax and let
by sjy 7y ago
Choosing to get a fake divorce so that you can game the system as much as possible isn't punishment; it's probably fraud. You could also choose to relax and let your children enjoy all the other benefits of a great upbringing, and accept that "the children of hardworking parents should be more likely to be admitted" isn't a design goal of the admissions system.
- gay-divorce 7y agoI mean, what's the difference between being legally separated, getting a divorce on paper and then living common law? Is an arranged marriage a fraud too? What if you get married for citizenship and then fall in love? Why aren't gay partners subject to common law divorce precedents?
- thinkingemote 7y agoThey are saying they will get a real divorce but just live together after.
- wanderer2323 7y agoResisting an abusive and insanely overreaching government system is not 'fraud' morally and it probably won't be one legally.
- astura 7y agoThe SAT is administered by College Board which is an entirely private institution.
- pacala 7y agoThe federally & state funded public Universities that will fall over each other to employ adversity scores as a pillar of their academic life, on the other hand... One can attempt to outsource responsibility from a legalistic perspective, but from a moral perspective one can't escape it.
- travmatt 7y agoThat seems like quite a stretch to rationalize why a private entity making decisions about its internal processes is actually government mandated overreach.
- UnFleshedOne 7y agoYou can't commit fraud against a secret metric. If the metric is public and official, then yeah, that's a fraud.
- fenwick67 7y agoIf you don't lie it's not fraud. You can game metrics all you want, you can get divorced for any reason.
- dragonwriter 7y agoYou can get married for any reason, but that doesn't stop certain perfectly true and legally valid marriages from being marriage fraud in immigration.
- tyopiuy 7y agoIt could come down to a large scale societal prisoners dilemna. It’s gonna get ugly
- remote_phone 7y agoNo it’s not fraud in the least. Nothing says I need to be married at all.
- PascLeRasc 7y agoYou said you're doing all this for the sake of your kids. What do you think they'll learn from you doing this?
- acid__ 7y agoIf I had to guess, probably that: 1. remote_phone cares deeply about his children 2. in life there are many unjust and immoral systems, and that it's okay to subvert them
- PascLeRasc 7y agoDo you think it was okay for Felicity Huffman et al to pay for their children's admission?
- cm2187 7y agoIt's not fraud to divorce. People can live whatever way they want. It is merely arbitraging a bad metric.
- strikelaserclaw 7y agoIf this guy is going to insane lengths like this, he is probably gaming the system in other ways anyway.
- dragonwriter 7y agoIf the guy is going to insane lengths like this, his kids probably have genuine non-economic adversity.