Jason3 comments on An African Folktale - Less Wrong

19 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 16 February 2009 01:00AM

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Comment author: Jason3 16 February 2009 04:45:34AM 12 points [-]

To draw out frelkins explanation: it helps to see the harm to the wife as retribution to the farmer, which does require a more patriarchal assumption.