The Ethics

There are various level of indirection in
engineering; we can force materials into shapes
which can be used to apply superior force to
superior materials and so on down to the final
products, which defy hand-tooling techniques and
pricing.

Then along came Social Engineering.
The reasoning went,"We can 'change' people to
make them 'better'."
The reasoning was specious.
The reasoning hid a multiplicity of evils.
The reasoning contained no real reasoning.

These are the ethics of the situation.

See the next post on why whacking people over the
head will fail...

...miserably.

Read.