Ep. 92: Real Socialism Has Never Been Tried
Young Heretics
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The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment
The humanitarian theory of punishment will put in their hands a finer instrument of tyranny than wickedness ever had before. For if crime and disease are to be regarded as the same thing, it follows that any of mind which our masters choose to call disease can be treated as a crime and compulsorily cured. No one will blame us for being christians. The nero will approach us with the silky manners of a doctor. And thus, when the command is given, every prominent christian in the land may vanish overnight institutions for the treatment of the ideologically unsound. But it will not be persecution. Even if the treatment is painful, even if it is lifelong, even if they are
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