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Julie Power's avatar

Beautifully put. As always, Ms Pluckrose articulates the mishmash of ideas swimming around in my head and gives them a coherence they wouldn’t otherwise have.

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Richard Sainte-Marie's avatar

I agree fully with what Helen has said.

An intertwined topic would be the nature of that accountability. As Helen would know from CounterWeight, accountability can take the form of thouroughly dehumanizing behaviour. Also, as others have said (Andrew Doyle, Douglas Murrey,...), there is no space for redemption or foregiveness.

Then you have the problem of personality traits, especially when they go into the realm of a disorder. Such people are attracted to positions of power which amplifies their destructiveness.

In other words, I am talking of the severety of such "accountability" and who makes the determination. Our legal systems have elaborate mechanisms to handle such matters.

There are no such protective systems within civil sociiety as it stands.

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