Researchers like Timothy Leary felt psychedelics could alter the fundamental personality structure or subjective value-system of an individual to great potential benefit. Beginning in 1961, he conducted experiments with prison inmates in an attempt to reduce recidivism with short, intense psychotherapy sessions. Participants were administered psilocybin during these sessions weeks apart with regular group therapy sessions in between.[24] Psychedelic therapy was also applied in a number of other specific patient populations including individuals with alcoholism, children with autism, and persons with terminal illness.[24]

Studies on medicinal applications of psychedelics ceased entirely in the United States when the Controlled Substances Act was passed in 1970. LSD and many other psychedelics were placed into the most restrictive "Schedule I" category by the United States Drug Enforcement Administration. Schedule I compounds are claimed to possess "a high potential for abuse and the potential to create severe psychological and/or physical dependence" and have "no currently accepted medical use",[28] effectively rendering them illegal to use in the United States for all purposes. Despite objections from the scientific community, authorized research into therapeutic applications of psychedelic drugs had been discontinued worldwide by the 1980s.

Can't have prisoners being reformed when they can be rented out as ditch-diggers for less than minimum wage. Just don't call it slavery.

They're Republicans. Of course they are concerned about teen pregnancies.

Who do you think is making them pragernet?

They were angry about “single mothers” for decades, but that was a racist dog whistle.

If you’re all white, it’s all right.

Always was.

Not all of them. Here's the exhaustive list of those who aren't

This just reminds me of a US coworker of mine who just became a great grandmother. It's teen pregrancies all the way down. Mother at 16, grandmother in her 30s, great grandmother at 50.

not a matter of "learning", it's a matter of "caring"

everyone knows by now this regime is full of pedophiles… but nobody gives enough of a fuck to do anything about it

Hell some of them ARE kids

In a regular society? Yes. But this is America we're talking about.

Now, now, let's not pretend these people are encouraging sex, those young whores are still to be shamed.

They're just supposed to have kids and be loyal to husbando. No pleasure involved.

(Also, they always supported teen pregnancy because they have always been anti-sex education and anti-contraceptive which allows the process of teenage parents to happen without them having to condone it).

Our masters want us to breed.

I frequently just stand outside and look at the sky and think, yep, we weren't meant to work all day. We were meant to pick berries and mushrooms and take naps. I feel better about my station in life, knowing those oligarchs can never be satisfied, and all I have to do to feel right is take a walk outside.

They are still saying this when it's convenient for them. The only consistent thing for such people is their cowardice in the face of responsibility.

Logistics at a certain point does not care what economic model you follow. Someone has to plant the crops and do all the other work that leads to people being fed, clothed, and housed under any system.

If your demographics are such that there are not enough people of working age to take care of those too old to work, you're going to have the kind of problems that led other human societies to kill their elders.

It'd be great if we could automate our way out of this, but I don't see that happening soon enough.