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Why bother? The areas of the globe where criminals operate are already overpopulated (parasites need hosts!) so recycling them as reformed humans is not required.The simplest way to recycle organic rubbish is to segregate it into a compost heap and let nature reduce it to sterile dust. I am always in favor of a "do nothing" approach if it achieves the desired result, and in this case it is certainly the quickest procedure and guaranteed effective.
Prehistoric humans were limited in their capacity to coordinate efforts involving large numbers of individuals,
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 27/10/2021 13:15:09Prehistoric humans were limited in their capacity to coordinate efforts involving large numbers of individuals,Stonehenge suggests otherwise.
Building effective calendars permitted trade over the entire west coast of Europe, across north Africa and into India. It was destroyed by the literate Romans.
Smart is useful, but the ability to swim 50 miles in the North Atlantic is essential. There is no "maintenance" - see above - they can die from exposure or sort out some shelter - I don't care.
Neuroscience has plenty of challenges and opportunities for making life better without wasting resources on our enemies.
Quote from: alancalverd on 27/10/2021 20:44:08Smart is useful, but the ability to swim 50 miles in the North Atlantic is essential. There is no "maintenance" - see above - they can die from exposure or sort out some shelter - I don't care. How do you send them there in the first place?
They could hitch a ride to the vehicles sending newer prisoners.,
They could build their own boat.
QuoteNeuroscience has plenty of challenges and opportunities for making life better without wasting resources on our enemies.How about turning enemies into allies?
Quote from: alancalverd on 27/10/2021 20:48:50Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 27/10/2021 13:15:09Prehistoric humans were limited in their capacity to coordinate efforts involving large numbers of individuals,Stonehenge suggests otherwise. How many people were involved in building it? I guess less than a million.
QuoteBuilding effective calendars permitted trade over the entire west coast of Europe, across north Africa and into India. It was destroyed by the literate Romans.Those trades require written communications. No one can memorize all of the transactions reliably.
We have no shortage of allies, and indeed an excess of people in most of the habitable regions.
There are very few modern enterprises that coordinate more than a million people. Indeed following the demise of the Soviet army, it is likely that the UK National Health Service is the only organisation with more than a million employees, and they are hardly "coordinated", merely facilitated to do their thing in small groups.
No need to do so until VAT was invented. You probably keep very good business accounts but would be regarded as a bit obsessive if you keep all your household supermarket bills and bus tickets.
A rural doctor friend never billed his agricultural patients, and never bought food.
What if the enemies are a whole nation? Or a group of nations?
A nation can coordinate millions or even hundreds of millions of people. The coordination doesn't have to be permanent employments. Managing lives in a pandemic or solving problems of climate change can be shown as examples.
Politicians can motivate and facilitate but it's very difficult to coerce everyone.
I signed up for an Open University foundation course in Humanities. The first three months were devoted to discussing the difference between homo sapiens and other animals, but did not come up with any valid answers. I had to write an essay on the subject but was completely baffled, so I asked the first person I met at work - literally passing in a corridor - what distinguishes us from other species. Without hesitation he said "Man records anything that is too trivial to remember".
From mass surveillance system,personal assistance, sensors in self driving cars, to internet of things and metaverse.
The fact that crime pays - even in China - surely underlines the statement that you can't coerce everyone.
The laws and moral rules don't have to be based on accurate description of objective reality.