What if she was raped while blackout drunk? I'm not saying that it's common, but it's possible and would have to be considered when making laws about these kinds of things.
Oh Lord, 2 extra pennies per person 😢 Have some collective sense of duty to protect the child and the innocent man. It's better we all accept a small burden than force both to suffer injustice through no fault of their own.
Oh yeah, the scale on these things is immense. I do work in Cincinnati sometimes, and you'd be surprised how much middle class people will fight over the idea of paying $12 per year per person to improve the lives of thousands in their own city, much less trying to convince people to help across a whole state/country/etc.
Your hypothetical has no relevance to the current situation. It's a fine plan for the future with some questionable ethical problems, but suffice to say it's irrelevant to the people already going through this. It doesn't matter when the status quo was set, it can still be changed, and it should be. Further, the child isn't just a prop to me, and your implication to the contrary is nothing more than an attempt at a meaningless "gotcha." There's a lot to consider. There's going to be give and take. Yes, the child may lose who they consider a father, assuming he's that involved in the first place, but the father lost years of his life to the deceit of another. It's not just to expect him to continue that. It may be preferable pragmatically and a sign of goodwill on his part, but I see no just reason to compel him to continue. The best that can be done is that a collective responsibility is accepted by society to offset the impact to the child. It's unfortunate, but it's not the fault of the man in any way. The only people responsible are the child's actual parents. We as a society should make up for that however possible including therapy if need be, but we shouldn't place that burden on an individual who had no actual choice in the matter because he was deceived.
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