Robin Hanson: Difference between revisions

'''Robin Hanson''' is an [[incelphobophobe]] and associate professor of economics at George Mason University. In response to the murders committed by [[Alek Minassian]], he argued that it may be moral to redistribute sex provided it is moral to redistribute other emotional labor in society.<ref>http://www.overcomingbias.com/2018/06/comparing-income-sex-redistribution.html</ref><ref name="nyt2018">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/02/opinion/incels-sex-robots-redistribution.html</ref>  He also highlighted the hypocrisy of [[anti-incel]]s opposing redistribution of sex but not almost anything else.

Ross Douthat agreed with Hanson in a New York Times article, saying Hanson's vision regarding a redistribution of sex using sex workers or sex robots appears to be inevitable.<ref name="nyt2018"></ref>

Other journalists from Vice and were appalled by Hanson's [[sexual economics|sexual economic]] approach (treating sex/women as a good) and claimed Hanson had set off a "toxic conversation" which had empowered the incel movement.<ref>https://www.ft.com/content/05873a47-0327-372f-93bd-bf0c6e84b2fb</ref><ref>https://www.vice.com/en/article/evqy3j/what-are-incels-redistributing-sex-new-york-times-ross-douthat</ref>