For those over 18 y.o., The Seed was voluntary unless court ordered. Those under 18 y.o. required parental consent, with or without court order. Many were there involuntarily, but despite what one might infer from reading the posts here, (though the involuntary were a large number), these were still a minority. (The squeaky wheel does get the most attention)
As to Seed v. Straight, there (obviously) were numerous commonalities as Straight attempted to institute their version of The Seed, but to categorize them as being the same is ludicrous. Excluding individual anomalies, i.e. bad people, (which occur everywhere and in everything), this would be exactly analogous to stating that the practice of Salafi or Wahhabi is the same as Sunni or ShiÌa because both cite and use the Koran as the basis of their beliefs and practices. Just as in this case, it is the differences in application that are the most defining, not the commonalities.
By keeping in mind that haters practice hate, and that vendetta can be intoxicating, much can be both extrapolated and intuited from what you read here.
P.S.
For those of you enamored with using other people?s quotes, here?s one that?s conspicuous by it?s absence. - ?To understand all, is to forgive all.? - Socrates.
