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by x220 7y ago
Here are some general costs of this policy: * it weakens trust in the institution of marriage * many men are financially responsible for children they would not be responsible for otherwise * many men are emotionally invested in ch
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by x220 7y ago
>potential harm to the children's psyche What about the potential harm to the psyche of a husband who doesn't know if he is the father of some children?
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by x220 7y ago
Wouldn't these same privacy issues come up if someone submitted their own DNA for an ancestry test? And yet, these tests are not illegal.
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by x220 7y ago
>what is the person supposed to do once they get the results of their private test The person is not "supposed to do" anything. It's the norm to let people make free, unrestricted choices as long as all parties involved co
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by x220 7y ago
I think this is a very fascinating legal idea. I wish more people seriously discussed it.
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by x220 7y ago
It raises the costs of paternity testing. Instead of privately, cheaply performing a test, you have to do it publicly and expensively. This de facto stops many men from performing tests, which is significant and not something you can just
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by x220 7y ago
Both laws make sense if you consider that the motive might be to keep the state stable at the expense of individuals. Keep people from criticizing court decisions so that it doesn't cause civil unrest. Raise the costs of fathers findin
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by x220 8y ago
>- A few hours ago, I wanted to play a game, but guess what... Steam had a network problem [1] and didn't even let me enter the offline mode. I think Steam is a really good (not shitty) DRM enforcer. A very occasional lapse in servi
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by x220 8y ago
Hell, I'd say humanization is outside the norm. I don't have enough brainpower to really imagine the feelings and needs of the thousands of people I come into close proximity with every day. I just follow rules of the road like ev
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by x220 8y ago
Yeah, but a moratorium on gene editing is the equivalent of banning all schools.
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by x220 8y ago
>As we have for the War on Drugs The war on drugs hasn't benefited the public.
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by x220 8y ago
>you can't just say "well buy somewhere else" You can, for the most part, if you don't make it harder than it needs to be to build apartment complexes.
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by x220 8y ago
So people reject a claim not because it's false but because they don't like the consequences of accepting that claim? That's the modus operandi of totalitarian ideologies. It's hardly a reasonable justification. >At t
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by x220 8y ago
>What we do know about actual evolution seems to support Gall's Law. That's because evolution takes place with very small changes in genome. It is an undirected process. Sexual reproduction makes evolution better for certain fi
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by x220 8y ago
I also don't know what the evidence suggests specifically, which is why I'd have to do a survey of the academic literature or ask about the consensus.
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by x220 8y ago
There are also a lot of people who hit their dogs. Is this ok?
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by x220 8y ago
Ask your doctor about it instead of listening to a Facebook group.
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by x220 8y ago
How so?
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by x220 8y ago
If you can hit your kid, why can't I also hit my dog?
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by x220 8y ago
You seem to think that "religion" means "blind adherence to something ", which is really, really narrow. Is COBOL a religion?
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by x220 8y ago
>The way in which public considers science today is much more analogous to the way the public considered religion during the time of Galileo. I wish. In the US a huge number of people (large enough to be dangerous) reject climate change
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by x220 8y ago
>the NSA has also abused their mandate a bit by spying on Americans The largest share of the data they collect is about Americans. This is done without legitimate, meaningful oversight or probable cause. Most of their measurable activi
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by x220 8y ago
Because you'll look more impressive if fewer people quickly understand your code.
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by x220 8y ago
"Valid role" is a meaningless term in the context of the NSA, which has broken the law for at least a decade with no consequences. The head of the NSA has lied to congress (which would put an ordinary man in prison). The NSA has s
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by x220 8y ago
The unknown is the source of everything good and bad, useful and useless. It evokes fear and hope.
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by x220 8y ago
Was there an actual idea in there?
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by x220 8y ago
So if women get drafted, they will mostly fill non-combat roles and push more men into combat roles? Jesus, no thanks.
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by x220 8y ago
> I don't view the prospect of my daughter or sister being drafted into a war as "progress" Neither is the prospect of only drafting men.
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by x220 8y ago
The NSA regularly violates the fourth amendment and never gets punished for it. How are those civil rights working out for you in practice in the US? How's the 10th amendment working out?
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by x220 8y ago
The founding fathers didn't think the government granted you rights. They thought you already had rights by virtue of being a human being and it was the government's job to protect and not infringe upon those rights.

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