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Essays and Aphorisms
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I can’t get over how illogical Schopenhauer’s argument for polygamy is in his diatribe “On Women.” It’s like he completely forgets that men and women are roughly equal in number. If a man takes two wives, that leaves one man without any. If a man takes fifty wives, forty-nine other men have to do without. Given wealth disparities, polygamy inevitably means that poor men will go without wives and…

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I couldn’t decide which quotes I wanted to post. I’m just going to put the best ones here. (I can’t help grinning reading Schopenhauer.)

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