Part of a functioning, healthy system is recompense/justice, and yes foregiveness.
If you tear a system down, even if you manage to shift some power balance, you stand to create a situation as bad or worse than the one you began with.
Unless a core value of the system you seek to create is forgiveness, you only stand to substitute one systemic opression for another.
Put in terms perhaps you might understand, african americans, hispanics are not forgiven their crimes, where often those with wealth and influence or socially favorable bias are (often) foregiven.
Adding more henious lanaguage, attitude to the mix does not help, when it can be redirected at those still in a position of relative powerlessness.
Some specific crimes should be punished harder (rapists especially in college and positions of power should immediately be punished and severely), at the same time where we are willing to dole out forgiveness, that should be equally given.
Part of a functioning, healthy system is recompense/justice, and yes foregiveness.
If you tear a system down, even if you manage to shift some power balance, you stand to create a situation as bad or worse than the one you began with.
Unless a core value of the system you seek to create is forgiveness, you only stand to substitute one systemic opression for another.
Put in terms perhaps you might understand, african americans, hispanics are not forgiven their crimes, where often those with wealth and influence or socially favorable bias are (often) foregiven.
Adding more henious lanaguage, attitude to the mix does not help, when it can be redirected at those still in a position of relative powerlessness.
Some specific crimes should be punished harder (rapists especially in college and positions of power should immediately be punished and severely), at the same time where we are willing to dole out forgiveness, that should be equally given.
You cannot have one without the other.