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I found an interesting comment in the reddit thread. Governments no longer have citizens. They have employees. Which makes sense with how things are going in the modern age. In such a system the only way to improve the quality of life of the labor class is to either isolate from the rest of the world or to pick up the bottom strata consistently until quality of life is high across the board so there is no benefit to picking somebody else up to do the same job for less money as nobody would agree to the contract.

We can now expect an outflow of Greek citizens to the rest of the EU meanwhile an increased inflow of labor from the poorer east European and North African territories.

The western societal systems are clearly not sustainable as they are completely dependent on bringing in people from the rest of the world to make up for population decline. The quality of people being brought in has been declining decade on decade as well as the smartest people have already been picked up from across the globe. The only remaining move is to bring in immigrants from culturally close nation states along with bordering nation states.

Just as the black plague improved the quality of life of the labor class due to lack of labor availability, we will see another improvement in the quality of life of the bottom class as the European populations continue to decline.

None of the developed societies of the world today are sustainable. As all of them are running on a below replacement fertility rate and have no capacity to replace their own internal populations, nor the levels of innovation required to grow at more than 2% GDP growth with a declining population.

In the end, western nation states can only grow via expansion.

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They earnestly believed I would reap great utility from it

When will rdrama branch out and make actual bait merchandise?? We could all learn a thing or two

I felt bad laughing at them but I feel like the overall happiness in the world increased so, whatever

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This is complete BS as is, but - even if it was real, it's horrific and should be destroyed. The idea that a prison could just force you to experience, on demand and in their full control, isolation and trauma is nuts. Imagine being falsely imprisoned and they just hit you with 10 years of isolated trauma in the matter of minutesIt is unironically evil villain sci fi dystopia shit (1)

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1st. This is bullshit, if they truly wish to advance society, use this tech for learning instead, imagine learning how to cook one of Gordon Ramsey's dishes within minutes of seeing it displayed on TV?2nd. This is NOT gonna rehabilitate, it will only cause more harm, inmates will either break or harden, giving us unstable loons or stripping them of what little humanity they had left, giving us beasts in human skin3rd. Imagine the damages when the victim was someone who was wrongfully convicted of a crime, scarred with memories of pain and death from their 'actions', they cannot be expected to return to civilian life without extensive therapy, how can an innocent man go back to their family when they've been routinely flashbanged with false memories of being brutally murdered? And what's worse, what if such a man becomes desensitized or even deranged by it? In the failure to arrest the true criminal, now a new criminal is created. In the absolute worst case of this, what if it's an i... (1)

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I agree with basically all of this, but I think they should go through the crime from victims POV. Only once though and then off to virtual prison. Compressed time or preserved bodies take away from the threat of prison, but having to experience what they did and then given time to virtually process it would be more effective. Probably borderline torture, but it's only virtual and "do unto others as you would have them do unto you."But more mental health and other social services and a focus on rehabilitation vs. punishment is still a better answer. (0)

forcing them to experience what they did to others is not only generally speaking unethical (and atm illegal) for being a form of torture, but also a contradiction.If what they did is wrong (from the subjective point of view of the current laws and dominant morals of a given Country), doing it to them is also wrong.It might be less questionable if it was only visual, = seeing the crime from the POV of the victim but without experiencing the body sensations. But it imo still has the component of forced moral conditioning, maybe even more than in the full-body experience, as it's less of a punishment and more of a "you see, this is wrong, can you see it now that it's wrong?", and I hope this won't ever happen, because it's be the end of individual sovereignty. (0)

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Am I the only one who isn't a fan of the new subreddit icon? It doesn't resonate with me. Not all of us are into anime.

lol wth is that. I didn't know about it until now. It's definitely weird.

It's literally nothing to do with "snipers" either. It could be someone with binoculars, a telescope, even an actual sniper, but instead it's a little detective? With a magnifying glass?

I totally agree, anime makes me uncomfortable. I have never pinpointed what specifically it is about the drawing style of anime and manga that makes me uncomfortable, the best I've come up with is that it feels uncanny.

I feel exactly the same. It also doesn't help that there are, unfortunately, certain negative stereotypes attached to anime and its fans. The new icon being a young girl(?) (ironically, my vision is very bad lol so I might be totally wrong here 😅) does not help at all.

The girls look like children imo, and a lot of anime is very fan-service, so it feels... pedophilic a lot of the time

Anime makes me uncomfortable because of the overwhelming number of dudes that sexualize the anime characters. The fact that child porn is a big thing in anime is also disgusting. A guy liking anime into adulthood is a massive red flag.

Holy shit, you people are ridiculous. Anime is a medium of entertainment. Child porn is not a "big thing" in anime. Your only experience with anime is when people complain about the exceptions and outliers. That's like calling live action stuff a red flag just because stuff like cuties exists.

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