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Regulate the Dating Market

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Regulate the Dating Market

This year’s Valentine’s Day was disastrous — not just for me, but for many ex-couples. But as I sat there on Sunday nursing my broken heart, I realized what’s wrong with romance today: not enough regulation.

The United States government has wisely chosen to regulate most other aspects of life, from what wage you are allowed to work for to what medicines a patient is allowed to buy over the counter. Voluntary interactions are all well and good, but the bottom line is that people have to be protected from themselves. The trade-off between liberty and security exists not only in privacy and foreign policy: we must strike a similar balance in the arena of love.

I propose the creation of a new government organization, the Committee to Assure Romantic Equity (CARE), to bring an end to the current Wild West of romance. Three powerful sets of regulations would bring much-needed stability to the chaos of dating.

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Some naysayers complain that this new CARE will limit our freedom. But freedom is not the only value. We have to consider the greater good.

Freedom is tolerable when exercised in ways that serve society, but its excesses must be curbed to prevent its exercise in antisocial ways. Good, decent people need some security in the romance market. If that means a little less independence for everyone else, so be it. Those who demand unfettered freedom are simply apologists for the heartbreak status quo.

Quite a modest proposal there, but think of the implications. Did you know there are people who have racial preferences in their dating lives? They actually prefer to date people of one race over another, and this agency can finally tackle that horribly racist attitude. People will be screened for such an attitude during their CARE training sessions, and if found to be at risk can be assigned Affirmative Action dates with their least preferred race until they get over such a negative attitude. Those who cannot be remedied of such attitudes can be denied the right to date. I know that I need this for myself. I find myself most strongly attracted to Latinas. That leaves many desirable women of other races at a comparative disadvantage, and a government agency to correct my own behavior is exactly what I need. I need government to control my behavior.

But racial equality is only the first step. If you read the writings of Tumblr Feminists and of Social Justice Warriors, you will see the problem is much more severe than that. Sexual orientation is a social construct taught to us on the basis of having a cis-het father and a cis-het mother in the artificial construct of a nuclear family. People will need to learn to date people outside their primary gender preference - and having a gender preference is a social construct in the first place.

There are women out there who cannot get dates with men simply because they are physically men. Not all men have penises, not all women have vaginas. It is unfair to discriminate on the basis of anatomy. If someone thinks he is a woman he should be treated as a woman - even on the dating market. Any man that refuses to date "her" should be sent to CARE retraining until he realizes he is wrong. It is time to use CARE to eliminate the scourge of "trans-phobia" and to realize that people are what they claim to be in spite of any and all evidence to the contrary.
 
This year’s Valentine’s Day was disastrous — not just for me, but for many ex-couples. But as I sat there on Sunday nursing my broken heart, I realized what’s wrong with romance today: not enough regulation..
Sadly, all the potential humor of the idea was overwhelmed by the preachiness of the presentation.
 
Tumblr Feminists and of Social Justice Warriors


Tumblr Feminists and of Social Justice Warriors



Tumblr Feminists and of Social Justice Warriors
 
This year’s Valentine’s Day was disastrous — not just for me, but for many ex-couples. But as I sat there on Sunday nursing my broken heart, I realized what’s wrong with romance today: not enough regulation..
Sadly, all the potential humor of the idea was overwhelmed by the preachiness of the presentation.

yet another example that they just don't get humor
 
Well, OK just so long as they don't start talking about putting a tax on hotness again.

I pay enough taxes as it is.
 
What is this thread doing in Political Discussions? There is a Freethought Humor forum up there, you know.

Well, actually this doesn't belong in Freethought Humor either. Maybe we can make a sub-forum, Not Really Funny At All, in Freethought Humor. Alternately, I propose a Libertarian Humor sub-forum, but definitely not both sub-fora, as they are pretty much the same thing.
 
So I guess all you libtards are saying personal relationships are of such trivial importance we can trust them to the Invisible Hand?

Except marriage, of course. Government needs to regulate the shit out of that.
 
I think a marriage license should be like a drivers license and have an expiration date. This sounds at first like it would result in a lot of divorces, but in reality, it would probably promote marriage longevity. People really don't consider it a privilege to be married. A system like that, with a written test and perhaps a driving test would make people feel proud to posess one of these licenses...also safe from arrest for driving without a license.:wink:

A couple of weeks ago, I just renewed my driver's license and I suddenly realized I have been continuously licensed for 55 years. I have never been married.:thinking:
 
What is a "tumblr feminist"? And isn't the OP article an example of "social justice" which makes the author a "social justice warrior"?
 
So I guess all you libtards are saying personal relationships are of such trivial importance we can trust them to the Invisible Hand?
I always suspected that you had a reading comprehension problem.

All us 'libtards' are saying it's not funny.
if it's meant as a serious proposal, that won't be a problem, of course.
 
So I guess all you libtards are saying personal relationships are of such trivial importance we can trust them to the Invisible Hand?
By "Invisible Hand" do you mean that Hispanic transvestite prostitute men give $22 to in the back of the Explorer?


Except marriage, of course. Government needs to regulate the shit out of that.
Perhaps you mean "Republicans".
 
So I guess all you libtards are saying personal relationships are of such trivial importance we can trust them to the Invisible Hand?

Except marriage, of course. Government needs to regulate the shit out of that.

The alternative to the invisible hand is the right hand.
 
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