Originally Posted by
waywardgs
They tried to institute a rudimentary surveillance system in early NYC. The idea was to mount mirrors in alleys and stairwells and a person would sit in a central location with telescopes. The telescopes were aimed in such a way that you could see up stairs and around corners via the mounted mirrors.
Needless to say, it was an abject failure. Didn't want people to watch? A rock handled those mirrors nicely.
It turns out that we have had pretty significant advancement since the 1700s. We gave black people and female people equal rights, we established a standing military without immediately descending into tyranny, we established a central bank without immediately descending into communism, we established a republic without immediately descending into mob rule or empire, I could go on...
...or we could rest assured that it's not even worth trying, and it's not at all an indictment of our society that we tolerate half a million children born into molestation every year, and our high-fiving over prison rape of said molesters absolves us of any tacit complicity. We could do that, or we could grow a pair.
eta: Because of my huge testicles, I post slowly. You would understand if you had such big testicles. I have edited both posts for clarity.
Last edited by Latrinsorm; 02-08-2014 at 06:20 PM.
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America, stop pushing. I know what I'm doing.
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