Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
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Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
5hr ago
I think it's important to note this isn't a new appropriation authorized by Congress (at least, not yet) rather the money is supposed to be coming from the existing Child Care and Development Fund which subsidizes childcare for low income parents who work or are in education or training. So, it's a reallocation of a government subsidy from working parents to non-working parents.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
6hr ago
I agree with this post in the sense that I think the rate at which teenage runaways were actually the victim of crime matters for assessing the police's attitude towards these reports. It is not good epistemic hygiene to reason only from the cases where the police didn't take it seriously and the individual was actually victimized. On the other hand, I am not sure it is good epistemic hygiene to exonerate the police officers by imagining the rate was such that their actions were reasonable either.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
4d ago
I guess as a point of clarification this is like a reverse jury nullification. Ordinarily in jury nullification cases the juror acknowledges there is not reasonable doubt but votes to acquit anyway. If the juror is acknowledging there is reasonable doubt but voting to convict that's pretty different. "Yes they're innocent, legally, but they should go to jail anyway."
If, for any given woman, being a SAHM is more productive than what she would be doing working then society ought to be willing to compensate her such that she should prefer being a SAHM to working. Pretty rarely see any proposal like this in practice, though.
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