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- From: kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy)
- Subject: Re: Efficiency in child support
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.182348.8407@rotag.mi.org>
- Organization: Who, me???
- References: <1h40c0INNn52@gap.caltech.edu> <1993Jan7.183504.1014@rotag.mi.org> <1ijeitINNr6g@gap.caltech.edu>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 18:23:48 GMT
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- In article <1ijeitINNr6g@gap.caltech.edu> peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri) writes:
- >kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
- >[tirade deleted]
- >
- >Why thank you so much, Kevin. After reading all that Freud I was still so
- >puzzled by what it is that women really want. (It's hard to decipher such
- >astute masculine logic when one's puny brain suffers from estrogen-induced
- >hysteria.) But now you've made it all so clear to me. And just as soon
- >as I finish my PhD at Caltech I'll go back to being barefoot and pregnant
- >in the kitchen, which you've just informed me is every woman's true desire.
-
- INTELLECTUAL COWARD! Only PART of my article was, er, passionate enough to
- be considered a "tirade". You're using that part as an excuse to avoid the
- rest of the article, which was a solid frontal attack on the alleged
- "logic" behind the current paternity child support laws.
-
- Here is a summary of the intellectual points you're trying to run away from:
-
- 1) The goal, which you have endorsed, of ensuring that every child is
- supported is essentially a socialist goal. The capitalist paradigm
- would let the children starve.
-
- 2) The "pure" lottery system I proposed to meet that goal would be
- far more efficient than the de facto "genetic lottery" system we
- have now, yet you dismiss it for no coherent reason.
-
- 3) Genetic similarity isn't really a solid foundation for ANY kind of
- social policy.
-
- 4) The method of scapegoating one segment of the population for
- universal problems is a favorite tactic of fascists and other
- opportunists. Men are currently being scapegoated for the problem
- of illegitimate children. Compare the Old South's attempt to
- "solve" its economic problems through the institution of slavery,
- or Hitler's attempts to blame all of Germany's problems on Jews.
- Is this the precedent we want to follow?
-
- 5) The current paternity child support situation is a legal aberration,
- in that it PRETENDS to assign child support liability according to
- personal responsibility, but conveniently "overlooks" the unilateral
- choices made between conception and childbirth -- choices that are
- not only important as incrementally liability-attracting, but
- particularly important in that they represent the Last Clear Chance
- for anyone to avert the social expense of bringing an illegitimate
- child into the world. The only thing propping up the continuation
- of this aberration are special interests.
-
- If you ever grow a backbone, and decide you do actually want to address ISSUES,
- Michal, I'll still be waiting here...
-
- - Kevin
-