Did he solve the issue basically perfectly for the time, and how might a modern judge have achieved the presumably correct and same verdict short of the more gruesome original hypothetical approach

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    3 days ago

    NAL, but I think the “cut the baby in half” is still done, just using time. After all, divorced parents do this all the time, they first make sure both parents are fit, and if they’re deemed equal they decide on custody. Of course there are many things that go into it. I was with my dad on weekends and my mom during the week so I could go to school

    • sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyzOP
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      3 days ago

      Ya, theres often the overriding factor of what gives rhe child the best and most consistent lifestyle altho that sure as hell wasnt the case when I had that wrongly decided for me for the child labor enthusiast and violence prone mother who won over the higher income and stabler father