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It happens during training, too,so I don't really see a distinction.

Vermeer was a master at that

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I'm going to propose a different speculation from the other answers -which have some truth - but I don't think it's that deliberate.

My guess is that it's because prisoners are adults that can sue, claiming "cruel and unusual punishment", and win. Kids generally won't. We'll maybe now they would, but less so back then.

Another issue is that despite the basic principle that they both involve "corporal punishment", there's a world of difference in methods and purpose between them. Guards weren't using a paddle to sternly swat prisoners' bottoms, and teachers in school (generally) weren't using billy clubs and fists to beat the shit out of kids. Guards use it for instant compliance and control, teachers use it as (harsh) corrective instruction. Obviously there were exceptions but overall that was the case.

Not necessarily.

You didn't provide any further context, so I will not bother providing further explanation.

heard in David Attenborough's voice

It's a little disturbing whether they could successfully breed.

It's more disturbing that they would try.

Dude, you're almost starting to understand what I'm saying, but obviously not there yet.

I forgot I had all the power and was the president of the world right now.

So, it would be simple and easy if an impossible and unrealistic condition existed. Not helpful.

I can get my own solar panels [...] I can lobby my community

That's a good start, and not hard. Maybe even simple, and/or easy. But it really doesn't solve the whole problem - it only solves a tiny, tiny part of the problem.

You just need the people with power to actually push for the things I am saying

And how exactly are any of us going to get this to happen? Is it simple to get the people with power to do something? Or easy? Don't you think there are millions of people who would love for exactly that to happen? Once again, if it were simple or easy, why hasn't it been done?

It is simple

Oh man, I thought you were starting to understand.

It is not simple. It is not easy. Of course we need to get the people in power to make change. But that is absolutely not easy or simple. It's like saying, "just cure cancer, duh!"

I do understand what you're saying. I'm saying you're wrong. It may be easy for one person to do certain things, but it's NOT easy or simple to get many people to do enough to effect real change.

I get the impression that you want these things to happen. I agree that doing these things would improve the situation.

If they are easy and simple, why haven't you done any of them?

• Renewables are not everywhere; why haven't you done that?
• Silver spooned babies who just feed corporations more power keep getting elected; why haven't you stopped that?
• Unions are still not as ubiquitous as they could or should be; why haven't you formed them?

None of this shit is rocket science and you are floundering in learned helplessness like our situation actually IS insurmountable. It is not, not by any means of the word.

Great! What's your plan?

Because merely identifying another near-insurmountable cause and saying it's "simple" or "easy" is pointless and dismissive. That's my point. You've offered no solutions or even suggestions for how to find a solution.

If it's so easy, why don't you do it? You don't feel like it?

Its obfuscated on purpose by the wealthy

Why would that matter? You said it was easy.

get rid of the billionaires and stop making clown laws. It is actually this simple.

There is no part of that that's simple.

If you want to solve the energy problem, invent and mass produce a cheap, non-polluting, zero-point energy generator. It is actually this simple.