Quote: (10-30-2012 11:07 PM)basilransom Wrote:
Driscroll doesn't hold women responsible for, well, anything, it seems. That might make sense if we lived in a patriarchal society where women had no freedom or independence. We don't, so it doesn't make sense.
well, haven't we long since concluded that women basically are children and can't take responsibility for themselves in a truly independent manner?
To be fair then, he's right. Man up, smack the bitch, and disenfranchise women. Women only have any power insofar as the state sanctions it - through taxation & redistribution and the legal system. I can't imagine changing one without the other, but in a purely libertarian society, women would be in the home because that would be the most economically efficient allocation of labor, given the nature of child-rearing (paging Gary Becker). Those women who didn't stay at home would not raise any children, and thus die without offspring, reinforcing the preponderance of housewives.
The nuclear family would still remain or recover, I believe, because like allocation of labor between a wife and husband, it's the most efficient vehicle to raise and maximize the human and social capital of children and society (Popenoe).
Nice! Natural equilibrium is right there, waiting to be grabbed!
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