@tohigherpurity

By nature, Amenta is blighted by three primary pollutants: garbage, the waste of Amentans, and corpses. The horrible crime of our ancestors added another that has now been present through most of history: reds.

In cleaning, we have the opportunity to redeem our ancestors’ crime and completely and forever eliminate a primary pollutant off Amenta, as well as eliminate the permanent pollution of tens of millions across Amenta, the physical (and constantly polluted) red districts, and so on.

This is an invention of enormous good and progress and a primary moral imperative of our generation is to see it used and done with all deliberate speed and thoroughness. 

Studies show that, controlling for the significantly and obviously effect-having factor of being permanent pollution sources, reds are not more likely to commit pollution violations. In fact, reds are clearly selected and trained for great care against pollution violations - if reds were careless with pollution it would be unconscionable and impossible for society to trust them with the jobs they do and have done for generations, and a red who is seen committing even an inadvertent pollution violation, failing to mark unavoidable pollution, failing to take all necessary precautions, and so in, is and has been highly likely to die.

In any case, individual pollution violations are the (vital and important!) business of law enforcement, and proper habits around pollution are the (vital and important!) business of education. Morality is the business of child-rearing, social institutions, and education, and personal to each Amentan for themselves past that point, and law is the business of law. If there is a need to monitor to prevent pollution violations then of course this monitoring should be thoroughly carried out and this is also of great and serious importance.

If someone volitionally commits pollution violations they should be executed; if someone otherwise is in danger of committing them they should be monitored and given appropriate therapy. This is of course essential and may not be compromised on.

But to say that we shouldn’t support cleaning because some ex-reds might commit pollution violations is like saying that we should not seek to prevent destructive wars because some people who would have died in the war might commit a murder. It is short-sighted and perverse.