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What to do with DTES????
Suggestion - right or wrong?
What about some sort of mass institutionalization scheme? Sort of a forced rehab for the habitually homeless, drug addicts and the like? We could take away their children, and take preventative measures to stop conception amongst the less capable. We might be able to break the cycle of parent to child if we removed them from the stiuation early enough. Those that were rehabilitated could rejoin the community, and the rest could be warehoused until they died, and then due to the lack of procreation, and the taking of their children, in a few generations, there would be hardly any ne’er-do-wells left.
Now, of course it would be expensive, in the short term, but property crime would be so reduced, it might help to offset the costs, and if we ran it bare bones, like a prison island, we might be able to keep costs down as well. The more able ones could be used as a workforce as well.
As for the human rights argument… honestly, would they be any worse off than they are now, dying on the streets of the modern plague?
Think the Gulag system.
Thoughts?
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