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"Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?" I never thought I'd see someone unironically epouse the ideas of Ebeneezer Scrooge, but here we are.
by saghm 2y ago
"Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?"
I never thought I'd see someone unironically epouse the ideas of Ebeneezer Scrooge, but here we are.
- dumbo-octopus 2y agoWhat’s your solution?
- roenxi 2y agoThe rebuttal to Scrooge involved a heavy reliance on divine intervention, ghosts and threats of eternal damnation in hell wrapped in heavy chains. While rhetorically powerful, I'm disputing that Dickens' opinions are the most thoughtful approach to direct social policy. As a starting point to benefiting from society there is a reasonable expectation that people put a couple of hours a day into making life better for others. Prisoners can achieve that lofty goal. So can people travelling on the NY Metro without paying. There is a lot of room to haggle over the details, but argument from chubby ghost of Christmas present is not really the path to a good compromise.
- heavyset_go 2y agoIs this your first time visiting this site?