From: adam@endor.uucp (Adam Shostack)
Subject: Re: Unconventional peace proposal
Organization: Aiken Computation Lab, Harvard University
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In article <1483500348@igc.apc.org> Center for Policy Research <cpr@igc.apc.org> writes:

>1.      The idea of providing financial incentives to selected
>forms of partnership and marriage, is not conventional. However,
>it is based on the concept of affirmative action, which is
>recognized as a legitimate form of public policy to reverse the
>perverse effects of segregation and discrimination.

	Other people have already shown this to be a rediculous
proposal.  however, I wanted to point out that there are many people
who do not think that affirmative action is a either intelligent or
productive.  It is demeaning to those who it supposedly helps and it
is discriminatory.

	Any proposal based on it is likely bunk as well.

Adam

Adam Shostack 				       adam@das.harvard.edu

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