zeke5123a
5hr ago
It goes beyond this. One societal problem wr have is atomization and the breakdown of community. If you encourage more SAHM naturally they will form more community. If you are the only SAHM in the neighborhood it will be a bit lonely. But if every third house is a SAHM you’ll probably start to build relationships with the other SAHMs. Timmy will play with Samantha and the moms will chat. Maybe Alice watches Samantha whilst Bianca has to run an errand. Bianca returns the favor. Over time, community is built.
zeke5123a
5hr ago
A leech is someone who takes from others in a negative sum way.
The whole theory here is that SAHM creates positive sum outcomes (eg better kids, perhaps more kids, better communities, husbands who are more focused to earn more money). Thus not leeches.
zeke5123a
5hr ago
I don’t think they can change the welfare cliff but the easy solution is simply to phase out the welfare so the marginal tax rate isn’t too bad.
zeke5123a
6hr ago
It also freed up the non working spouse to do more non paid but valuable work (eg make meals, build community)
zeke5123a
6hr ago
There is also a presumption that taking care of kids is the only output. A SAHM can help build a community especially if there is a critical mass
zeke5123a
6hr ago
I think one reason SAHM is hard is it’s a minority choice. As a result, there is almost a prisoner’s dilemma where if both Alice and Susie stayed home, each would like it more but if only one stays home it’s isolating.
Arguably getting more women to stay home increases the happiness of each SAHM.
zeke5123a
1d ago
I don’t think the constitution is clear at all. As Thomas points out, the people near in time to the 14th seem to take a different view of what it meant.
zeke5123a
2d ago
Of course it is ethnic. The whole argument is that it is ethnic. And it is only radical if you start the clock forty to fifty years ago. It was the norm well before the.
zeke5123a
2d ago
For many on the right, demographics is existential. There comes a point (and maybe we’ve already past it) where the cake is baked and there is no way to reverse and as a result the country is gone.
Worrying about tit for tat makes sense in a somewhat stable democracy.
zeke5123a
2d ago
Well, can you change the legislation if talking about the problem is in fact a crime? Seems like an uphill battle.
But more to the point, I think you are not speaking the same language of the right. They see the granted citizenship as an entitlement; not a right. The position on the right is that these immigrants have no real right to be here and that it was government grace and diktat that permitted it. So now we are rescinding that right.
zeke5123a
2d ago
This is why Roberts should burn in hell. His faulty birthright decision likely doomed America. Hell BK even gave him an out from reaching the constitutional question (which Roberts generally loves) but if there is one thing Roberts wants to take a stand against it is the preservation of the U.S.
zeke5123a
2d ago
Everything you wrote could be affixed with the phrase “for now.” When Germans are a minority, do you still except a pan Muslim majority to allow you to be “German” in the same way today?
zeke5123a
2d ago
So when the left violates civil rights (eg restricts speech via hate speech laws, limits free association) does that make them far right?
zeke5123a
3d ago
To be clear, what was reported is that the juror had doubts. The law permits finding guilt even if you have some doubt; the standard is reasonable doubt. If you read the common example, it is better 10 guilty go free than 1 innocent punished. That seems to imply an approx. 90% certain standard. So if you are 99% sure but leave some room for doubt (ie 1%), then you ought to vote to convict.
Ironically by stressing the existence of doubt (but not qualifying whether it is reasonable) the other jurors may be indicating they do not understand the law and are not apply it properly.
zeke5123a
3d ago
Can you provide a cite for the bartender claim? I googled and it wasn’t obvious.
zeke5123a
3d ago
I think her supporters support her out of a combination of wanting more status for motherhood (ie playing the victim) and wanting to eliminate accountability for women’s actions.
zeke5123a
3d ago
I did not know any of those facts. Fascinating how distorted the story came across if not heavily interested in it.
zeke5123a
3d ago
I think the almost certainly true story was that Clancy was having a really hard time, had a lot of intrusive thoughts, and started viewing this as the only way out.
While that may not be sane, I don’t think it means she lacked the ability to understand her actions were illegal or lacked the ability to not comply with her intrusive thoughts. Indeed, she previously resisted these intrusive thoughts making it clear she could resist; she just didn’t one time when the feelings were quite palpable.
So she is criminally guilty in my mind.
zeke5123a
3d ago
I don’t think anyone is making a positive claim about this but a normative one
zeke5123a
3d ago
I’m not sure your history is accurate. The quickening was an evidentiary standard.
zeke5123a
4d ago
Clearly she wasn’t mental well. But the question isn’t whether she was mentally well. The question was did she have the capacity to know what she was doing was a crime or did she have the capacity to resist the impulse.
The premeditation strongly supports believing she could resist and knew it was wrong.
zeke5123a
4d ago
The main argument for abortion is my body my choice. While that has the obvious problem that there is another body upon whom the mother is exercising her will upon, it still has some purchase.
But it has no purchase when the kids are outside the uterus.
Of course, the stated reasons for why abortions might be chosen still have purchase. Maybe your point is that my body my choice doesn’t really reflect the core reason behind the abortion supporters. But my guess is without the my body my choice argument few are willing to bite the bullet.
I think you are ignoring the costs of working, the marginal tax rate of working, and the quality of life differences for SAHM.
My wife was a teacher. When she ran the math with our first kid (and the quality of childcare she wanted) working only came out ahead by about 10k. She made the decision the 10k wasn’t worth it.
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