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199 | Elizabeth Cohen on Time and Other Political Values
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
I'm Not in Farfor of Child Marriage, Right?
Time is a bad proxy for things, but a better proxy than some other proxies. Naturalization laws are basically a temporal formula in which time and residence,. your character, your proficiency in english, you know, yourno, civic knowledge, like all these things actually are requirements. And that's a formula, and time's only part of it. We adjust the formula. If you marry a us Citizen, the time the probationary period time and residence is reduced. if you serve in the military, it's reduced. If you serve on active duty, it goes down to basically zero. When everything rests on one particular moment in time, you will always have an arbitrary outcome.
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