Foot binding puts education (child prison) into context. How could they do it? Well, it was the normal, loving maintenance of a child.
@sarahdoingthing It's all anchoring. It's fun to compare American cops shooting blacks to (say) Praetorian guard, but latter was way worse
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@sarahdoingthing I try to limit empirical/historicist axioms in my arguments to minimum. This is one I trust because it has robust support -
@sarahdoingthing Interestingly, I think decline-of-violence and Fukuyama-democratic-peace args aren't part of Whig progressivism proper
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@vgr has any civilization incarcerated such a high % of its population in all of history? -
@sarahdoingthing Depends on what you mean by incarceration, and whether you judge modern institutions by U.S. alone or all lib dem ones - Show replies
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