• Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems
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    MORE POSTS LIKE THIS

    What I thought about child marriage as a cause area, and how I’ve changed my mind

    lol

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      The opening line is… certainly a phrase.

      I have been working on a research project into the scale, tractability and neglectedness of child marriage.

      Later:

      Some studies even showed that child marriage was associated with more positive outcomes, such as higher contraceptive use

      Ummmmmmmmmm

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          One of the least studied rationalist tics is “as far as I can tell, most people who believe X is bad think so because Y reason which nobody has ever brought up, but which I find easy to disregard”

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          Near as I can tell, the people who think it’s terrible are in large part motivated by largely-false quasi-Mathusian claims related to “overpopulation”.

          somehow this person has gone their entire life without ever hearing about the concept of “conesnt”

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          ( Something something Chesterton’s fence…)

          Y’know I wasn’t expecting to see any award-winning arguments when I clicked the link to see the ‘full’ version of their post, but I’m still a little surprised that literally all the reason they gave was “something something Chesterton’s fence.” That’s just pathetic.

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      A long time ago somebody sneeringly called themotte an ‘empathy removal centre’, and it is good to see EA is picking up the torch.