Tag: paternity
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The Externality, Not the Sin Begin with the distinction that every child support debate collapses without. The state has no legitimate interest in a man’s chastity. It has an overwhelming fiscal interest in the internalization of a cost he has externalized onto someone else. A man who fathers children across multiple households has not committed…
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How the 19th-century state pathologized both the man who loved men and the colonizer who crossed the line—and why the German response to that history became the foundation of European liberty There is a moment in Friedrich Schiller’s Aesthetic Education of Man—the Sixth Letter, written in 1795—where he draws a distinction that the 19th century…