Sunlit53 t1_j9phxla wrote
It’s like no one reads history. The Romanian orphanage scandals aren’t that long ago. When the Ceausescu regime in Romania banned abortion and birth control in an attempt to raise the population levels they ended up with hundreds of thousands of kids their families couldn’t afford to feed.
Those hundreds of thousands has babies that turned into millions of kids clogging the underfunded state orphanages, kicked out at 18 with no education, no social skills and no prospects. Crime, drug use and related issues skyrocketed.
They moved into the sewer system for shelter and promptly started popping out babies of their own. In the sewers.
It’s a human rights nightmare to this day.
Jampine t1_j9qyyps wrote
Those who don't learn history are doomed to repeat it.
Those who do study history are doomed to watch the first group repeat it.
SideburnSundays t1_j9r57oz wrote
This is why I wake up depressed every fucking morning. Half the world is made up of morons, a quarter are psycho/sociopaths, and the quarter with the right mix of brains and a functioning moral compass are too powerless to do anything.
MetaPolyFungiListic t1_j9tv9vb wrote
May I suggest the philosophy of Absurdism. It is well suited to the information age.
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PeepholeRodeo t1_j9ro7h7 wrote
I remember watching a movie about that: “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days”. Brutal.
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