I am baffled to keep seeing people who champion intellectual freedom acting as if an unsettling thought experiment is a big deal.
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If you're a conservative, answering intellectual question should be a cakewalk! Presumably you have things to say about the value of family
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If you're a libertarian, where went that enthusiasm for showing how the government is bad at doing, like, everything?
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Even vast majority of extremely progressive people think opportunities should be equalized across existing families, no scrambling required
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Regular psychology, evolutionary psych, public choice, anthropology, sociology... relevant evidence against this policy is EVERYWHERE.
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An honest response to the thought experiment can afford to acknowledge that humans can & do engage in alloparenting with some frequency
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The authors of the piece obviously sound more sympathetic to the random-allocation-of-kids than like your average American would be
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But they stop short of being outright proponents; they are not lobbyists
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They make an honest intellectual ask:pic.twitter.com/rHtgrvcOx8
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nnnnnnneh kinda seems like it's begging the question phrased like that. 'full communism promises many advantages etc. etc.'
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