Eugine_Nier comments on Factions, inequality, and social justice - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TimS 07 December 2012 09:41:14PM 3 points [-]

What struck me most about that very interesting post was how "legalistic" the MRA controversial claims were. I'm a lawyer, that's not a slur. It's an interesting contrast between the feminist controversial claims, which are mostly about social dynamics, and the MRA controversial claims, which I could write a model statute to fix in practically no time at all.

And since writing statutes to fix social dynamics is a crude tool at best, and often counter-productive, reasonable MRA activists and reasonable feminists have a great deal of trouble avoiding talk-past-each-other-itis.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 08 December 2012 04:07:01AM 4 points [-]

And since writing statutes to fix social dynamics is a crude tool at best, and often counter-productive,

Depends, if the social dynamics where themselves created by bad statues, fixing or repealing the statute seems like at least a start.