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[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

This is like trying to solve mental illness by making sickness illegal.

[–] Zos_Kia@jlai.lu 8 points 19 hours ago

I'd say that's more like trying to solve mental illness by making it illegal to exploit and profit from it

[–] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erewhon

Erewhon: or, Over the Range (/ˈɛr.ɛ.hwɒn/, ERR-eh-hwon)[2] is a utopian novel by English writer Samuel Butler, first published in 1872,[3] set in a fictional country discovered and explored by the protagonist. The book is a satire on Victorian society.[4]

In Erewhon, illness is crime and crime is illness. As a result, citizens are imprisoned for offenses like physical ailments, misfortune, or ugliness while those who commit conventional crimes like fraud or theft are seen more sympathetically as exhibiting symptoms of moral afflictions and prescribed sessions with a "straightener" (essentially a psychologist) for treatment.[5]

[–] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 1 points 8 hours ago

That is suspiciously close to "Nowhere" spelled backward.