I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to fully form my thoughts on what happened here. But here’s one thing —
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in the law, we refer to something called “self-help”— this counterintuitively is often a discusses as a *bad* thing. “Resorting to self-help” is a phrase I heard a lot in law school.
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It was often cast as a bad thing because it involved ordinary people taking things into their own hands instead of relying on the law. It meant bear traps to catch burglars, tripwire guns, vigilantism. “Self-help” was the Lord of the Flies chaos that happens when the law fails.
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While working on certain stories in the past few months, I have heard over and over again the belief that the system has and will continue to fail women, that it is futile to go to police or to take an attacker to court.
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My sources were in consensus, even across continents: there is no rule of law when it comes to violence against women. The various choices they made happened in a void where law, order, responsibility, or accountability had all collapsed.
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This is what I think about when I hear for calls for “due process” for those who are accused: “Wait, so *now* you want to live in a sociefy of laws?”
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I hate the shitty media men list. I don’t want to live in a world where people make public google spreadsheets of allegations, no more than I want to live in a world where people put spring guns behind their front doors.
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But decrying all the spreadsheets and all the “lack of due process” won’t change the world we live in, the world that keeps spinning up new and desperate forms of self-help. This chaotic, Lord of the Flies feeling of helplessness? It belongs to all of us now, welcome.
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Anyways this is the only correct answer to calls for “due process”https://twitter.com/mjg59/status/945780957390495751 …
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I just read it too! So thoughtful and right on.
Merci. Twitter en tiendra compte pour améliorer votre fil. SupprimerSupprimer
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