people tout the story of Solomon and the baby as an example of his wisdom in grokking stereotypical maternal impulse, but ignore his wisdom in re the key principle of governance that any redress the government is petitioned for must be at least potentially worse than the problem
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Correct. The person who had actually been wronged was petioning for redress. It was unclear who the victim was though so the solution was meant to identify that. Once that was identified, true redress could be given.
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one has to wonder at the thief’s supposed okayness with it half a baby is of relatively little use to most people
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