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    1. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 27 Oct 2018

      To the extent the description of their folkways is accurate, the Puritans get a tremendously bad rap from their presentation in contemporary media The society sounds actually quite functional, prolly more than ours net Wonder how much of this necessarily trades off liberality

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    2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 27 Oct 2018

      They seem to do a great job supporting healthy marriage and family life in particular And not by forcing women into submission, they were quite progressive in their feminism, eg apparently if anything punished male fornicators more harshly than women

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    3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 27 Oct 2018

      But their social/ecclesiastic/criminal systems (in that order) were (i) quite attentive to domestic strife, and (ii) operated primarily to end the strife, rather than to punish either partner per se

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    4. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 27 Oct 2018

      I'm not sure something like this could be implemented without that level of social cohesion, sadly And maybe that social cohesion comes at the cost of substantial personal liberty Need to mull this further.

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    5. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 27 Oct 2018

      Example: guy refers to his wife as "[only a] servant" in front of neighbors Everyone is aghast at this verbal abuse He's hauled in front of a court, wife refuses to testify against him They fine him as punishment nevertheless!

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    6. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 27 Oct 2018

      Observations: 1. Very high standards for treatment of a spouse 2. Enforced by neighbors whom I imagine would come off as unbearable busybodies today 3. Courts intervene . . . wisely? Judiciously? Too much? Unsure but hard to imagine today

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    7. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 27 Oct 2018

      Anyway the next section describes how they execute a guy with one eye out of nowhere because a sow gave birth to a piglet with one eye and they assumed he fucked the sow so it's not all sunshine in New England

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    8. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 27 Oct 2018

      "A classic example [of Puritan onomastics] was an unfortunate young woman named Fly-fornication Bull . . . who was made pregnant in the shop of a yeoman improbably named Goodman Woodman."

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    9. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 27 Oct 2018

      "[The idea of] the depravity of infants . . . led Puritans to conclude that the first and most urgent purpose of child rearing was what they called 'breaking of the will.'" nevermind i now hate the puritans

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      eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 28 Oct 2018

      Yeah it was downhill from there :(

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