David Sklansky is an ACist

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The fact that human history is so violent, both on a micro and a macro level should be evidence that "applying social consequence" is not nearly effective enough to stop such things.
I used to fight in middle school, not by choice, but because I'd get jumped by kids with too much testosterone. There were no negative "social consequences" for these kids and I couldn't change that fact if I wanted to.

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One of the main reasons why schools in the US suck so much is that they put kids in these bizarre situations. First off you are lumped together with kids from families you have never met before, then forced to sit still for hours at a time (the exact opposite of what kids want to do), then you are given adult over seers who are not related to the kids and rotate on a yearly basis. Of course there are no (or not enough) social consequences in schools, the schools themselves are set up extremely poorly.