I am wary of 'marriage for societal health' arguments on two counts. 1) Hard to tell causation from correlation. 2) What can be done abt it?
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If having 2 parents who are married correlates with success in life, is this caused by marriage itself or is this a correlation?
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Is the cause a tendency to commit to things forever and the symptoms both long-lasting marriages and career progression?
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If social pressure to marry for life existed, would that change people's mentality across the scale & make them more committed generally?
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Also, even if we confirm that life-long marriages are truly beneficial to societal health, what would this indicate we should do about this?
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Make it beneficial to marry & difficult to divorce or have children if single? I'd be very wary of doing anything like this.
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I think we need to think in terms of the individual and not overall statistical trends when it comes to freedom and rights & opportunities.
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Seeing letter & responses. These ppl are coming from worlds apart, completely different premises & assuming the worst of the other side.
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But this: "anti-blackness & white hetero-patriarchal". Make the argument, don´t transform debate & Inquiry into unchallengeable dogmas.
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If they have a problem with this, their heads will explode if they hear of the fantastic Deirdre McCloskey. They would no be caught reading,
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a Libertarian, but she is a Trans Women. Remarkable Trilogy. http://www.deirdremccloskey.com/books/ pic.twitter.com/6kTDCDKqC0
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