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by RichardHeart 3383 days ago
Hey, we could group people by height, or hair color, or ability to put socks on without sitting down, or political preferences. Let's choose gender and base policy on that, what could go wrong? Surely it must be the best way to tell what a human needs. Or perhaps we're not concerned with the individual human at all, just the "average" human we can use to make our demographics seem "equal." Is equal 50/50, or it is moved by ratio of male/female in state, city, nation?

Or is it perhaps, a way for more people to get jobs in HR and consulting. Is it ok that many convenience stores are owned by immigrants? Should we make it more "equal" and ban them? What other demographic trends must be destroyed?

Perhaps we need more short people in basketball.

Google: "welfare state paradox"