Just reposting this excellent point from lemmygrad

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    literal infanticide becomes a political necessity as a product of MONARCHY

    If they wanted their children to be safe, then they should not have forced them to be the sole inheritors of a brutal dictatorship

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      political necessity

      Just because people stomp up and down about ‘political necessity’ doesn’t actually conjure that ideological abstraction up into material reality. China didn’t machine gun Pu Yi and incidentally, their communist party is still running the show. I don’t know how difficult it is not to machine gun a 13 year old, and no amount of “you made me do this” are going to change the fact that we’re the ones making the (erroneous) decision to machine gun 13 year olds.

      Kind to people, ruthless to systems, folks.