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How else are we going to find out which policies work, if we can't perform experiments? The experiment is the basic tool of science.
by handoflixue 3y ago
How else are we going to find out which policies work, if we can't perform experiments? The experiment is the basic tool of science.
- vkou 3y agoSome experiments can't be performed, for ethical reasons. We don't test if parachutes work by throwing people not wearing them out of planes, for one. States can experiment with variability in their legislature, but there is a unified federal law that guarantees certain fundamental rights. Much of the south is currently trampling all over them.
- philwelch 3y agoOf all the states I can think of which are blatantly infringing upon an enumerated constitutional right, none of them are in the south, unless you’re going to be pedantic and count California and Hawaii.
- vkou 3y agoNo person without body autonomy can be considered 'secure in their person, houses, papers, or effects'. In fact, none of the other rights matter when the state can control what you can, and can't do with your own body. It is the most fundamental of rights. They are also doing a great job of trampling on the fourteenth amendment, with the occasional jabs at the first.
- philwelch 3y ago> No person without body autonomy can be considered 'secure in their person, houses, papers, or effects'. It wasn’t the southern states that imposed vaccine mandates for dining in restaurants, either. I know what you’re alluding to; suffice to say that I don’t find this legal theory particularly compelling, and more importantly, neither does the Supreme Court.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> We don't test if parachutes work by throwing people not wearing them out of planes We’re seriously comparing not having TikTok and Instagram for a few years to death?