@bronzeagemantis You stumbled before but your point is clear and broadly correct, but there's 2 things missing
1) the State as an enabler of poor female selection
2) the Scale of Modernity. How much is poisoned by the sheer breadth of possibilities vs hist norm? Feymann speaks of this.
@SRamirez68083 1) you are overestimating the value of people that can't figure out murder is irrational and have crazy High t preference
2) you are underestimating the Life hrs Lost by locking ppl up
3) rehabilitation is not a thing, there's no process that reliably turns kilkers into normies
@SRamirez68083 Which is also what the paper is doing, projecting cost benefit analysis into historical contingency that happened for bureucratic, moral and centralization of power related reasons
@SRamirez68083 Because you are trying to rationalized Quaker historical inheritance. Putting criminals in zoos with other criminals, trying to preach them about good behaviour, it's nonsense.
Fines, flogging and firing squad could handle most of that for peanuts.
This is a clever paper but corollary to the actual reason we don't hang them all: the modern state could never justify killing 1-5 innocents every 100 criminals like a premodern state could and present-biased offenders discount low-probability tails, so Becker doesn't hold.
Not only is the view that preventing criminals from reproducing will prevent crime most likely wrong, but we know that you are pulling on the wrong lever.
Public debate focuses on harshness of punishment when probability of enforcement gives you the most gains.
This is a rather common (compared to how outlandish the claim is) theory and the textual evidence is interesting. As an amateur Christologist and Bibliologist I can think of scant evidence supporting this, but no one can explain why the fuck an Alien Intelligence would do that.
I took an elective course on "Ancient Israelite Mythology" during undergrad. The professor was a youngish Jewish archaeologist. He told me in private that his read of God in the OT was of some alien force dwelling on Sinai, seeking worship, choosing champions for reasons unknown.
This guys all shtick is turning "It takes a long time" into "it's pseudoscience", despite his claim on the stickiness of polygenic traits being correct.
This whole world-view is based on a Dark Age understanding of genetics, so it is unsurprising that it leads to Dark Age policy conclusions. No different from a guy ranting about keeping the four humors in balance or the effectiveness of trepanning.
This is why the most important decision you can make while guiding a Political movement is whether you want to die win Forever (secret society) or you want to live and have your legacy rot (caste of priests, Politburo of buraucrats, etc)
@woke8yearold Freemasonry is in its core essence a society of LARPers, manifesting their triumph of the will upon society and including the state building architectures of said society
@Brilliand__@BTRBT_ But what of the opportunities that never materialized ? Perhaps we always were one Land value tax away from widespread Nuclear power adoption or Sea stading or whatever.
And while progress on space is real, the roadblocks are realer. You are always close to a local optimum trap.
@PositivistWitch True, but I am more annoyed at intellectual discourse being just trannies talking past each other because *thing* isn't a *thing* anymore but an identity anchor during transition.
This negates the only positive effects of being on the spectrum.
@BTRBT_ That's more like splitting the functions performed by all landlords and giving a couple of them to the State. But It's true that the resulting hyper government agency would be top3 most powerful Institutions in the country.