By: Martin
Ken, I will paraphrase Carl Sagan. “Spock is the son of a Vulcan man and a human woman. That makes about as much sense as someone being the offspring of a man and a daisy.” We are using real world laws...
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Didn’t this blog do a whole series about sentient beings, competency, civil rights, and whatnot? Seems this would be a classic place to apply the product of that series.
View ArticleBy: Ken Arromdee
Martin: we’re using real world laws, but we’re discussing how comic book events would relate to them. In the comic books, Superman looks and acts completely like a human and is completely interfertile...
View ArticleBy: Brett
There’s a difference between civil rights and competency for a sapient creature. People that are homosexual are most assuredly people under the law, they’re competent, have civil rights and a whole...
View ArticleBy: James Daily
If you could somehow go back in time, show Superman to them, and say that he is a non-human animal by definition and therefore cannot marry a human, their reaction would be “that’s crazy. He’s...
View ArticleBy: Ken Arromdee
The problem with this logic is that legislatures at that time were perfectly content outlawing marriage between humans of different races. Why would you think they would be okay with marriage between a...
View ArticleBy: James Pollock
Or another route… how would the states handle a hypothetical Kryptonian marriage ceremony, performed in Kandor, between Clark and Lois? How about the Shi-Ar marriage between Charles Xavier and...
View ArticleBy: Garm
On the subject of Superman…strictly speaking, we do not know that he is a man. Or a male, or that he is interfertile with humans. Kryptonians (more accuratly, Daxamites, Kryptonians are a subspecies)...
View ArticleBy: Ken Arromdee
We do not actually know what Kryptonians look like with their clothes off. But the odd favor the incidental resemblance to humans not going very far. The odds also favor there not being any incidental...
View ArticleBy: I Married a Skrull! | Law and the Multiverse
[...] (as opposed to voidable) because human/Skrull marriage is not legally recognized in New York. Our prior post about this was a bit controversial, but our conclusion there was that interspecies...
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If Superman and Lois Lane had a child, could Superman be compelled to pay child support?
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If he can’t sign contracts would he be able to sign bills into law or treaties with other nations?
View ArticleBy: James Daily
That’s a question that hasn’t come up as far as I know. There have been some cases in which a president’s mental status has been questioned after the fact. For example, Reagan may have already been...
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