If you think about it, the US approach to just about everything is "punish people", whether it's law, education, healthcare, family planning
@AmyDentata @Firebomb173 i'd dearly love to believe that, but nothing about my experience with how people respond to the availability of…
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@AmyDentata@Firebomb173 …resources particularly helps me do so. -
@chaosprime@AmyDentata You've never seen someone's life be improved by alleviating poverty? -
@Firebomb173@chaosprime Check out the results for housing first programs versus throwing homeless in jail, then tell me about "moochers". -
@Firebomb173@chaosprime People who lack basic needs will seek ways to get those needs met. The problem is a system that denies basic needs. -
@AmyDentata@Firebomb173 it might also be a problem to imagine that system does so solely out of perverse sadism. -
@chaosprime@Firebomb173 Well if I was doing that, sure. -
@chaosprime@Firebomb173 But punishment != sadism, though can often lead to it.
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