Interesting Links for 11-02-2012
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andrewducker- A Strange Form of Social Collapse (i.e. one where life is getting steadily better)
- About my 'spilled semen' amendment to Oklahoma's Personhood bill
- What does new glacier data mean for the climate debate?
- IT guy answers daughter's Facebook rant by shooting her laptop
- Economics explained: Plan A vs Plan B
- Scotland may have answers to English maths problem
- Iran Shut Down Gmail , Google , Yahoo and sites using “Https” Protocol
- The Swedish model is the opposite of the big society
- There is no single root cause of your problems (or successes)
- The internet is drowning in inaccurate anti-ACTA arguments
- British children are culture starved
- Controlling parents more likely to have delinquent children
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Date: 2012-02-13 09:38 am (UTC)It shifts the power to decide who gets what assistance from the community from a disinterested civil service controlled by democratically elected politicians to self appointed and self regulated private actors. These private actors are not necessarily neutral.
When I was about 13 my family and I spent some time living in a small rural town in Austalia. We were, for a short time, significantly unrich.
One of the local priests would drop round with food parcels on the condition that he was allowed to hit us children when we swore. So food in exchange for a certain narrow view of morality and the acceptance of someone else’s right to control you through violence.