re: #345 iossarian

Oh, I’m not arguing just for the sake of arguing, believe me. My point is that asking that question (“this person is identified as white here, so how can he be identified as black over there”) is wrong, basically, because a) it’s not really anyone else’s business how people identify

We’re not talking about the self-identification of the legal dad here, so (a) doesn’t really apply. We’re asking how someone else’s identification claims square with the pretty significant prior probability of the opposite. The answer to that could indeed be mundane (as was the case here), but then again, in some cases it could be interesting (like it was in the RD case).