wedrifid comments on Our House, My Rules - Less Wrong

36 Post author: David_J_Balan 02 November 2009 12:44AM

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Comment author: wedrifid 02 November 2009 02:40:53AM *  0 points [-]

The only real alternative is to give children as a whole higher status, by, say, rewriting the laws so that children are not essentially their parent's property.

Or, we could give the most dominant parents free access to all the best trash. (See, for example peace-among-primates.)

Comment author: teageegeepea 02 November 2009 11:58:09PM 1 point [-]

I notice in a plug at the end that Sapolsky wrote a book about why zebras don't get ulcers, and other stress-related diseases. In fact, ulcers are caused by bacteria, and a Nobel was awarded for that discovery. I wonder if Sapolsky will want to avoid being credited with that in unrelated op-eds.