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Unintended BONUSES?
Posted by: adonis49 on: August 19, 2015
UNINTENDED BONUSES
A swimming pool allows adults to be shirtless and feel the summer breeze without looking ridiculous. (Rory Sutherland).
+ Formal dress codes allow overweight men to hide their shape.
+ Dietary laws have the side effect of keeping minorities tight together –and preventing the majority from feeling threatened.
In Ottoman Mediterranean cities, interdicts against alcohol allowed tolerance; they prevented non-business socializing with the Christians. It allowed multi-religious cities to flourish.
There should be hunting rules based on skin in the game.
If you want to kill an animal, say a lion, for pleasure, you must incur the risk of being killed by the lion.
Looking for suggestions
PS- As to Walter Palmer (the dentist from Minnessota), in this case given the gravity of the violation, he should be fed to lions, as in the days of the Circus Maximus.