Re: Recruit vs Groom: Compare and contrast

It draws it fairly high, willing to delay minor pleasure for many teens to help shield a smaller number from severe distress from their own bad decisions.

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

The main flexibility built into the present system is parents, who hand out privileges and make rules for their children based on their knowledge of the particular child -- very imperfectly, but better than any other simple system. The idea of extending it to parents allowing sexual activity with other adults is one I am more willing to toy with than most other possible changes to the system.

B.S.

Your discussions with Goethe on BC prove you don't.

the benefit curve rises sharply with age (up to 30 or so anyway).

False.