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Ireland is the most NIMBY, which is why its population is lower now than in the 1800s Uh, are you sure that you haven't disregarded the Great Libertarian Socio
by inejge 2y ago
Ireland is the most NIMBY, which is why its population is lower now than in the 1800s
Uh, are you sure that you haven't disregarded the Great Libertarian Sociological Experiment of 1847 in your reasoning?
- defrost 2y ago“[The Famine] is a punishment from God for an idle, ungrateful, and rebellious country; an indolent and un-self-reliant people. The Irish are suffering from an affliction of God’s providence.” “The judgment of God sent the calamity to teach the Irish a lesson. That calamity must not be too much mitigated. The greater evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the Irish people.” ~ Sir Charles Trevelyan, 1st Baronet, Assistant Secretary to Her Majesty’s Treasury, 1847 (Knighted, 1848, for overseeing famine relief) https://youtu.be/yvKTG8pE_70?t=526 https://youtu.be/yvKTG8pE_70?t=526
- rsynnott 2y agoI mean, I suppose when you make a really _catastrophic_ fuckup at work, saying "God did it" is... an option?
- astrange 2y agoThat was a long time ago. Also, it only recently recovered to the level from 1851.