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Here's a set of laws I'd really like to try as a social experiment.
Any child below the age of <blah> must have at least one parent. The parent(s) have responsibilities and rights as per normal.
The starting parents are the biological ones.
The parental relationship may be disconnected from either end. Consent of the disconnected party is not required. Disconnection severs both rights and responsibilities. Per rule 1, the last parent can't disconnect without arranging an adoption.
The child can add, eject and swap parents. Per rule 1, the child can't eject their last parent, they have to swap.
For a child-initiated addition or swap to go ahead, all parents and the child present after the swap must mutually consent before the swap.
That's some strong selection pressure in favour of attractive, well behaved and appreciative children who will grow up to be repulsed by their own spawn.
I get the first part. What's the selection pressure for the second part, though? (I tried a couple times to reason it out and I'm not seeing it.)
Think Cuckoo.
You can afford to produce more offspring if you can reliably ensure they will be well cared for by others (they are adorable) but are immune to their allure yourself. You will get rid of them and don't have to spend resources that could be better directed at finding mates and gestating.
Aaaah, okay, whoops. Of course, once everyone's repulsed by kids, the selection pressures would change a bit.
I think he's saying a baby laser wins on resources and heredity. Which is true, but they lose on memetic influence.
Baby laser? Nice one, I hadn't heard that term before.