she's literally mocking as inherently risible the idea of somebody wanting Amy Cooper to get a life sentence for *checks notes* attempting to murder a random Black man for asking her to use public property correctly I don't support the carceral state, but, uh.
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Like I don't think Cooper should have gotten life in prison either but I don't think it's stupid for the hate crime of attempted murder to be considered on the merits of exactly what it is
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oh okay the popularity of the Richard Spencer punching video is indicative of "a situational form of sadism", alright, yeah, because of course
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Contra is going full Margaret Atwood with her extreme level of emphasis on Odysseus executing his slaves for sleeping with Penelope's suitors, which... okay fine, that's the most fucked up moment in Homer, but where are you taking it
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"I don't think Odysseus is supposed to be an asshole" lady he literally invades allied territory to force one of his friends to kill his innocent daughter just to facilitate sea travel to stage a war for a woman he doesn't want to marry
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Literally the first thing he does in the Odyssey (chronologically, not narratively) is circle back around to rape and pillage yet another a Trojan settlement AFTER THE WAR HAS ALREADY BEEN SETTLED AND WON
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Vapor Weyve Retweeted Arthur Chu
This probably bears mentioning, yeah Even though I think ascribing it to "sadism" is kind of misreading the tone of the room in January 2017, after this dude had already used government property to shout "Heil Trump"https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1302045968917884928 …
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Also I'm not really defending Odysseus murdering all those suitors but like I don't know if there would have been a similarly reliable way of getting them all to fuck off and leave Ithaka after literally a decade of sunk costs what's to stop them from poisoning Odysseus
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So a lot of this is basically unpacking the aphorism that "an eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind", which, like, fine, whatever, that's kind of an innocuous pursuit, but I've always found this particular kind of concern to be more than a little disingenuous
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Like an eye for an eye only leaves the whole world blind if you take eyes from people who haven't taken eyes If you only take eyes from eye-takers, specifically, and set aside culpability by association, you still have plenty of be-eyeballed people left over
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Well the point is that if there's no overarching central authority to decide the validity of people's claims, and you have an "honor culture" where justice is decided by people enforcing their own claims on each other, then you'll *always* get "disproportionate" revenge
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Because most of the time the person you take revenge against doesn't actually think they did anything wrong That's why they did it in the first place So from their POV you're the asshole
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sure, but for it to get out of hand you ultimately have to accept the premise that the number of people who can be punished for a crime can rightfully exceed the number of people who committed it If you accept "innocent people are off-limits", your scope narrows
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