Can everyone agree that the obvious Chesterton Fence here is that normative monogamy was the alternative to Incel cataclysm? ...
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Replying to @Outsideness
that suggests that there was a choice and someone to make it, so probably not
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Replying to @adornofthagn
Does it, though? Predictable consequences don't presuppose a metaphysics of moral culpability.
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Replying to @Outsideness
Chesterton's Fence seems to presuppose just that, reformers who could have acted otherwise
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Replying to @adornofthagn
It just says a wall is probably doing something.
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Replying to @Outsideness
fair (but earlier events of the general 'incel cataclysm' form, and of greater intensity, which furthermore happened under conditions of comparably intact normative monogamy, still shed doubt on the argument at object level)
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Replying to @adornofthagn @Outsideness
It's not we don't have periods of massive instability that culminate in a massive war that kills off a large surplus of the population every century, after which societies mysteriously restabilize around their new equilibria. And in the 21C, there's a lot more people to die...
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"Saint-Just, his time come again, slouching toward the banlieues..."
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Low-status men might be low status but that doesn't mean they'll settle for it easy. They'll want high-status partners. People propose monogamy settles this but that's not the case, or else we wouldn't have these century wars. Trad dads claim credit for what Death has wrought.
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That's the Neoclassical Equilibrium Model of sexual economy. It's not holding up too well in the 21st century.
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Replying to @Outsideness @AmbrosialArts and
what would the Austrian model be?
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