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> dressing well and working as a team An argument against incarceration is that it might turn minor criminals into hardened criminals. Maybe transporting unde

• defrost 3y ago
  > Maybe transporting undesirables An uncomfortable truth about transportation is that while there were hardened criminal types sent over, the great demand was for skills .. the convicts sent were largely desired - stonecutters, wood workers, draftspeople were needed to build a new world and those early Colonial megaliths didn't erect themselves. The majority of convicts worked without chains or imprisonment, which allowed political prisoners such as the Fennians to make with The Great Escape: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalpa_rescue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalpa_rescue Abel Magwitch was quite the benefactor after all.
  • 082349872349872 3y ago
    "One would think he was going to have his throat cut," said the Controller, as the door closed. "Whereas, if he had the smallest sense, he'd understand that his punishment is really a reward. He's being sent to an island. That's to say, he's being sent to a place where he'll meet the most interesting set of men and women to be found anywhere in the world. All the people who, for one reason or another, have got too self-consciously individual to fit into community-life. All the people who aren't satisfied with orthodoxy, who've got independent ideas of their own. Every one, in a word, who's any one. I almost envy you, Mr. Watson."
    • 082349872349872 3y ago
      A little research reveals that Huxley was born two decades after transportation ended, but he was certainly familiar with the upper class variant: the remittance man.