nibot ([personal profile] nibot) wrote2009-11-04 03:35 pm

puzzle!

[Poll #1480868]
[from scientific american via cosmic variance]

[identity profile] aepfelx.livejournal.com 2009-11-04 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
contingent on all three parties qualifying as "persons"...

[identity profile] eigenvalue.livejournal.com 2009-11-04 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't get the point of this.

[identity profile] jcreed.livejournal.com 2009-11-04 10:52 pm (UTC)(link)
So then a constructive logician is someone polite enough not to ask Anne whether she's married? :)

[identity profile] roxymartini.livejournal.com 2009-11-04 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
why did most people answer 'yes'?
i don't get it either.

I'm either the best lawyer, or the worst.

[identity profile] caerglas.livejournal.com 2009-11-05 10:35 pm (UTC)(link)
I've been following the legal LGBT marriage arguments for so long I automatically slipped into legalese. I figured that (1) since marriage is a legal status, (2) Anne could easily be a total lesbo and married to a lesbo, and (3) since the validity of marriages is up in the air at present (among the states/federal government), that without knowing the specifics of Anne's marriage I couldn't really answer the question.

Like for my chums C&H, we all think they're married, but the state & fed gov't won't recognize this unholy matrimony. Then there's T&K, who CA believes are married, but most of the other states won't recognize their marriage when they drive/fly through, nor will the federal gov't.

So I figured it cannot be determined without figuring out whether marriage was an "either/or" thing, rather than "it depends on where you are and who you ask" thing.

But yeah. I can totally see that the answer otherwise would be yes, if marriage was an 'either/or' thing.