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I am due to learn more about theories of harm reduction, but I really want to do so reading texts by black and indigenous women.
In part cause one thing I want to learn how to resolve in myself and grow is to understand where violence is placed in these models. Cause I understand that a major principle is that the state can& #39;t and shouldn& #39;t have tools of violence in anyway.
Though what happens when a community decides that violence is necessary. Say, in the case of deciding to just off some cops that slew a black woman in her sleep.
Since on one level there is no such thing as justice for the dead, but can there be justice for communities forced to live with such trauma? Can it be seen as harm reduction because we know these folks will kill again and hurt others?
Or is the goal to still push for paths of recompense that these sort of folks commit to communities? I guess I want to know what the thought is because I feel so hot inside these days and am seeking answers.
Since for much of my life, and still now, I do believe in the idea that some people are too dangerous to let live in terms of how their own intolerance and hatred can infect a society.
I think to an NK Jemisin story that was in many ways a response to The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, wherein you did have people that sadly had to take a life because that life was committed to principles of oppression and putting those into practice.
I want to see a better world. A revolutionary one. Though, at the undercurrent of this thread, is I think a worry that this revolutionary thought might be too fragile to protect me. Or, even worse, that perhaps I am too laden down with trauma and pain to pass into such a world.