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- From: beaver@castor.cs.psu.edu (Don Beaver)
- Subject: Re: sexist assumptions
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:30:05 GMT
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- margoli@watson.IBM.com writes:
- >In <C1D6qo.8rv@cs.psu.edu> beaver@castor.cs.psu.edu (Don Beaver) writes:
- >>peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri) writes:
- >>>beaver@castor.cs.psu.edu (Don Beaver) writes:
- >>>
- >>>>peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri) writes:
- >>>>>beaver@castor.cs.psu.edu (Don Beaver) writes:
- >>>>>>Man A's condom breaks, woman has abortion, man A pays no child support.
- >>>>>>Man B's condom breaks, woman has child, man B pays $200,000.
- >>>
- >>>>Man A and man B have acted identically. But only man B can be "fined"
- >>>>(and indeed possibly imprisoned). Why the difference?
- >>>
- >>>Because man B has a child that he is obliged to support. Man A does not.
- >>
- >>You've restated the problem, not answered it.
- >
- >In case A there is no child.
- >In case B there is a child.
- >
- >If there is no child to support, there can be no child support.
-
- Okay, now suppose:
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- Man C with woman E, condom breaks, E aborts; another woman C aborts.
- Man D with woman E, condom breaks, E aborts; another woman D has child.
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- The law states that any man must support the child of a woman
- who shares his last name.
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- Man C must not pay woman C; man D must pay woman D;
- the two men have acted identically.
-
-
- Your "answer" explains that this law is fair and just:
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- If there is no child to support, there can be no child support.
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- Don
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