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@Hyolobrika I think it's reasonable to have them. It's not actually illegal per se, it's just grounds for a civil suit. Consider the alternative methods of recourse for this issue: most of them are (or have become) illegal. You can't tell someone "Pistols at dawn" any more: even if that were legal again, people care less about honor than they did and it does not mean much to be branded a coward.
> Why don't we just teach children to
Sentences like these rarely work out how you'd hope. Really the sentiment is "Why don't more people think this way?" and the answer is that they don't, and you can't fight human nature. But to answer the question more directly:
> Why don't we just teach children to think critically?
You know why already.
> Are people so deeply irrational that that won't work?
What we think of as "rationality", everyone taking their actions based on syllogisms and math and facts and science, is not how anyone makes decisions. People don't think too hard about most things and behavior is either reinforced or penalized and that's feedback. Rationalization is more often retrospective. I think I told you about the split-brain experiments. People just do stuff, then you ask them why they did something and they perceive remembering a reason while they fabricate one.
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