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22 Post author: JoshuaZ 31 August 2012 01:26PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 03 September 2012 10:23:53PM 1 point [-]

“I know when I see it”, but I'd say that e-mail and trains enable people to do what they want to do (namely, communicate and travel), whereas the prototypical “technical solutions for social problems” try to discourage people from doing what they want to do (e.g. the Prohibitionism).