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by dragonwriter 1634 days ago
> I sometimes think, one way to break this cycle is to send the all the kids to boarding school or military school.

This is a pretty standard solution by people working from abstractions that aren't checked against the realities of people.

It’s also a stunningly bad idea that tends not to survive past very initial steps toward implementation (on a general societal level; it has often been implemented in a more limited way targeted at disfavored minorities where it is a component of genocide by destroying the people as a people) in real societies, even when there is a powerful governing group devoted religiously to an ideology which embraces it.