Thread by @elfair

a rite of passage for adulthood is to look up for ALL developed nations the history of eugenics/forced sterilization.

i'd always thought eugenics was mostly about encouraging select people to have 👶🐣, but apparently it also included state-sponsored sterilizations.🫠🤦‍♀️so bad.

the creativity recorded in the history of evil is really beyond your wildest imaginations

this rabbit hole was brought to you by googling why people were made about the sydney sweeney jeans ad and then clicking on some links.

i mean, i knew about.. the practice of it in war, and many different imperial experiments on human subjects (pr/na), and as punishment for various crimes, but like.. as a state-sponsored thing after wars ended.. not really. sounds insane.

people are so much scarier than i tend to think 😐

i think this blind spot for me happened because the things i read over the years focused more on preventing people from rounding people up to murder them or do medical/weapons experiments on them and didn't cover learning about rounding people up to make them unable to reproduce.

all of this is so much more control than anyone should ever want over other people, mostly, with the exception of people who commit violent crimes. if you commit violent crimes against innocent people, i think all bets are off, which should serve as a deterrent to commit more.

i was fed a very strong diet of anti-death penalty materials as a kid, but given what i've learned about the nature of some of these ongoing crimes, i don't think society's advanced enough for that yet. the hope is that it gets there and stays there. but we're not there yet.

some things are important enough to eradicate that dp/cp should remain on the table, which includes male-on-female violence, or adult-on-child violence that is sexual in nature.

if people aren't going stop that, dp/cp needs to return to more places as an enthusiastic practice.

or fatal. i think sexual and/or fatal. that stuff needs to just die out as a thing we do and allow to persist with no consequences or let go with a essentially a tap on the wrist. some things, you just don't do, and that message needs to be clearer.

which is.. i am like a broken record.. why higher baseline criteria for awarding a high school degree is absolutely essential. if you want to TALK or INCENTIVIZE people into better behavior, you have to teach them what words really mean first.

failing that, the most effective solutions are all so much less pleasant than making sure there is a high baseline level of DEFAULT and reliabel civility, or at least LACK of violence against others.

as in, you CANNOT fail education of the masses as a society, bc the repercussions, some violent/fatal, snowball.
You're NOT showing more mercy but cutting people slack AFTER the school system fails them. The school system must be made to do its job and actually educate children.

i'm not saying educated people don't commit violent crimes. that happens too, and often in more systemized ways. i'm just saying like on a basic human level if a person is educated, they are more likely to encounter ideas like.. i have a future. let's not fuck that up with crime.

it's also why i'm so focused on actual transparency in violent crime statistics and security footage.

the rhetoric surrounding this all must asap change to acknowledge that the awful crimes/criminals themselves are inflammatory, not STRAIGHTFORWARD DISCUSSION/DEPICTION of them.

only when there is an functional negative feedback loop about what is unacceptable in civil society will things improve, and only with focused attention on accurate information will we know EXACTLY when things improve enough to warrent lower punishments.

all of our problems with

the current system of what is supposed to be a negative feedback loop for unacceptable actions is completely broken. you can't see clearly who did what to whom where how bad it was bc media censors it, and even when not, the justice system metes out unimaginably light sentences.

you also are not allowed to express rightful anger towards the people who actually hurt you or hold their communities accountable for change. that's a dysfunctional perversion of the very concept of social progress, to re-victimize the victims by blaming them for lack of care

after all that you also can't call out the ppl who generated the nonsense narratives that aren't grounded in history or in statistics, because they ofc have narratives ready to demonize THAT action of holding THEM accountable for willfully misrepresenting the facts of violence.

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