Willie - if only the most able or the most assisted by "the right sort of parenting" can escape you are still condemning most to long-lived misery, and you are adding to the injury the insult that they or their parents did not try hard enough.

Painting walls with a toothbrush, cutting lawns with scissors, cleaning lavatories, these maybe the army way (and even then the army way to punish) but they have no place in a civilised society.