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DanArmak comments on Many of us *are* hit with a baseball once a month. - Less Wrong Discussion

39 Post author: Alexandros 22 December 2010 05:56PM

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Comment author: DanArmak 23 December 2010 12:19:35AM 3 points [-]

It seems that most of the arguments as to why having a period is good came around after it became possible to avoid it (Birth control).

That has a simple explanation: before it was possible, the question simply didn't arise; there was no reason to discuss it! It doesn't tell us if opinions changed at that point.

Comment author: jsteinhardt 30 December 2010 04:38:53PM 3 points [-]

But if the hypothesis is that the arguments exist to rationalize the existence of the problem, we should expect just as many, if not more, of these arguments before the problem was solvable.

Comment author: DanArmak 01 January 2011 10:56:16PM 2 points [-]

Good point. In light of that my hypothesis isn't very good.

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