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I completely agree with everything said here, this really is the heart of it. And I think folks feel so strongly about the right to what is essentially blacklis
by Spivak 2y ago
I completely agree with everything said here, this really is the heart of it. And I think folks feel so strongly about the right to what is essentially blacklisting certain people and organizations because it is one of the few ways you can "hurt" someone in polite society.
As strange as it is I think we lost something when dueling and other violent extrajudicial justice stopped really being a thing. I don't want it back certainly but there is something to be said for the mediating effect that if you piss off enough people they might drag you out of your house and beat you half or fully to death. Or say literally burn down your house or business.
There's a very real asymmetry where when someone materially hurts you or your community and you don't have one of the means that society has deemed acceptable to "hit back" with you're just stuck having to put up with it.
- cafard 2y agoExtrajudicial justice tends to be more extrajudicial than just. > literally burn down your house or business See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_Street_Baptist_Church_bombing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_Street_Baptist_Church_bom...