Involuntary unemployment and involuntary celibacy have more in common than is generally recognised.https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/989535565895864320 …
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Wasn't offering solutions!
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You didn't have to though! The statement of the incel problem - "it's terrible that women won't have sex with us" - implies "...and we should make them" because that's what its proponents say. I'm saying that the casual *neglect* of that obvious implication is bad.
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Stop thinking solution space. Think rather on situation of person 5 years involuntarily in either scenario, what that does to that person, and what that does to potential for exit from that scenario.
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Sure, but if I thought about that, and considered them to be equally problematic (or even if I didn't), isn't the next step to think about the solution space?
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I mean, I could be a kleptomaniac and feel really frustrated and lacking in opportunities for self expression because it's illegal to steal, and we can consider my frustration without considering the solution space...
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Kelptomania is a little more rare
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Heh. But the point is that a problem which inherently can only be solved by oppressing someone else is not really a legitimate problem in the sense of "hey maybe we should try to solve this".
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Not all problems have solutions
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I can't believe I'm getting into this analogy which is the [insert your own adjective here up to the point where you get upset] I've heard in a long time...
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Money can be used for the exchange of goods and services including sex. Sex is leisure and, therefore, less income. Lessening income inequality also provides people the means to buy anything else they want, including sex. OUT.
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I can't believe I scrolled all the way up, hoping this was still going to be about feijoas.
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If there's one thing that's better than sex.
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Feijoas are very good but well ummm
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