A wicked tyrant intent on impoverishing his country and enslaving his people would come up with this diabolical plan: He’d give money to all women who give birth to a child as long as she never marries the child’s father. This ensures that the mother will be mired in drudgery and will always depend on the tyrant’s largesse. It ensures that the children will never acquire values or education thus they will always be his dependents and grow up to become his slaves. And the men who fathered those kids will feel impotent; and impotent men desperate to recover their masculinity turn to indiscriminate sex and violence. But never fear, no tyrant could ever be quite that wicked.

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