ultimately what this woman needed was not a government program but a society that would encourage or pressure her to make the good choices that she basically is not competent to make on her own
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later Progressives were fond of and really even defined by their advocacy for eugenics eg, see Buck v Bell (1927), regarding forced sterilization. it has never been overturned incidentally I do not favor thishttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_v._Bell …
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more what actually seems to work is what the Mormons have done in Utah. see
@asymmetricinfo's nice piece on thishttps://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=5111151&itype=CMSID …Show this thread -
regrettably I would hate living in this kind of social environment but as I age I see the appeal on the current margin
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neo lowell-waltham system as a possible release valve
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in general incentivizing people do fewer bad things was done by open public contempt and/or shunning, not long ago my parents are born around the end of the war and they remembered stories from their childhoods seems to have worked, but by torturing the wayward pour encourager
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those who walk right back into omelas because they’ve seen chillelas
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The alternative to Magdalene laundries is not a gentle progressive land of milk and honey with unicorn ponies, but multi-partner fertility, meth, fentanyl and oxy. The latter solution leaves no *mass* graves, though, and nobody is easily identifiable as being responsible for it.
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To be somewhat glib: Even if both alternatives were suboptimal, I think I would prefer the life with all the sex and drugs, instead of the one where I was being worked to death inside the horror prison.
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