baffling to me how it is deeply ingrained in the ideology of many that there must exist a class of people who are ontologically evil and deserve whatever punishment is doled out to them

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I write about transformative justice, community, love, Judaism, Neurodivergence, mental health, Disability, geography, rivers, labor, and libraries; through poetry, opinionated essays, and short fiction.
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baffling to me how it is deeply ingrained in the ideology of many that there must exist a class of people who are ontologically evil and deserve whatever punishment is doled out to them
identifying the Acceptable Target is like, the corn syrup of moral ideology. people get one taste somewhere and decide that must be the end goal of thinking about anything. who is the lowest rung on the ladder, or who is going to fill that role in my little subcommunity
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."