wedrifid comments on The Irrationality Game - Less Wrong
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Fathers? Crazy talk. It's the mother that has the ability to abort the child to prevent transgressing upon the law. Killing the father seems not just innapropriate but also extremely impractical. It means the father should kill any mother who doesn't abort the pregnancy at his request in order to save his own life. Not a desirable payoff structure.
An even worse implication of that means of enforcement - practical, legally sanctioned assassination.
If you create a system of rules they will be gamed. That rule is far too easy to game.
In all fairness, that rule does lie on the draconian end of things. I was thinking more on the mild end, because my confidence level is more appropriate at that level of punishment.
You can probably scratch out the last one or replace it with mothers.
Absolutely, I appreciate the whole 'scale of sanction' thing and with :s/father/mother/ it would fit just fine.