Thecla and Thea

David Stockhoff · 08 Jan 2011, 01:11 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 20:11:57 -0500
Subject: (urth) Thecla and Thea
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Exactly. And since no one would be able to tell the real mother of a 
child anyway, there is no point in maintaining a distinction.

On 1/7/2011 5:23 PM, Andrew Mason wrote:
> David Stockhoff wrote:
>
>> Of course, you have the potential problem of the khaibit offspring being
>> neither legitimate nor exultant.
>>
>> But that sort of thing can be solved just by ignoring it---if society at
>> large only cares about the nobility of the sperm, there is no problem.
> Well, the mother's genes are noble. And concepts of legitimacy vary
> between societies; if it's a recognised relationship (even if we don't
> talk about it) the children may count as legitimate.
>


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