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  • I think I haven’t made myself understood so I shall try to explain better. If one simply stated that rich pricks who own farms could send busses around to kidnap young people to forced hard labor it should universally be regarded as a moral outrage. On the other hand the government doing the same thing to force them to sit in rooms and learn math and history is regarded as a universal good.

    It can reasonably be said that the expected benefit to society is very high and the corrupt benefit is virtually non-existent. The reverse could be said of using young people as cheap labor. The corrupt benefit to rich private parties is massive as is the cost to young people who would mostly have to be shipped to places they don’t live to give up 2 entire years of their young life during the most productive part of same. They would be starting college 2 years late, starting careers 2 years late, Buying houses 2 years late. Starting families 2 years late in an environment where it is already hard to get started during the time frame when its most healthy to have families.

    Such a policy would be wildly unpopular and almost certainly illegal. If implemented it would probably lead to the downfall politically of any who started it and if allowed to go forward it would be a massive blow to the productivity and wealth of our nation which depends on sending such folks into productive fields whilst we import cheap labor to do our dirty hard jobs. As it should effect millions of families it should soon lead to nationwide protests and broad and destructive unrest.

    Calling anything you intend to force young people “educational” is incoherent because it is fundamentally different to bundled them away from their families to work in the fields than to make them sit for an hour and learn math. It is in short one of the dumbest ideas ever expressed on the internet. It is spectacular not only in its stupidity but in how it manages to dress up something that would be so destructive in so mild a dress. It is the clark kent of stupid ideas stripping off his plain dress to zoom across the face of the earth in flagrant attire only to punch himself thunderously in his own nuts repeatedly.





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    2 days ago

    You are basically talking about adding 2 years to high school, a full 50% increase in duration, with very little benefit compared to enrolling in college.

    The questions I asked which you didn’t bother to answer is why should they do this instead of higher paying work or college and why should we force people to do it.

    Explaining again HOW you intend to temporarily enslave people eg make it part of school isn’t particularly informative.






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    By what logic do you jump from this would benefit people to we should force people to spend their time doing this under penalty of law? Why should people do this instead of continue to further their actual life or education? Why should people do what can’t be well paid work instead of earning actual money?











  • Bullying is often in the form of low-level violence combined with verbal and other forms of harassment committed repeatedly by folks who enjoy it.

    There is little hope of beating it at the same level of intensity and for reasons of culture and not prosecuting thousands of kids adults avoid dealing with low intensity harm between kids even when over time it is intolerable. Beating up the bully requires one to be capable of such when the bully may be larger and physically imposing and part of a group then not getting treated as the guilty party afterward for being the one who actually caused real harm as if the harm of years of harassment aren’t real.

    Its great your solution worked for you but for lots it would mean bully and friends get to beat you without consequence and you get in trouble reinforcing the game.

    Its quite frankly on average a bs solution. The actual one is to pay attention to who is a pos and kick the 1% worst pos to shit schools so 99% can learn in peace.