smoofra 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: dclayh 03 November 2009 07:43:50AM 9 points [-]

Children ought to have fundamentally lower status, not just because they're children per se, but because they're stupid and useless.

So then the legal system should award status based on usefulness and intelligence, not age as in the present system.

Comment author: smoofra 03 November 2009 04:58:17PM 3 points [-]

Well, no.

Status is a informal, social concept. The legal system doesn't have much to do with "awarding" it.