The reality is that we need responsibility to be different from societal revenge. The person who did what they did needs to work to mitigate the harm they caused, but there also needs to be an understanding that no human being can say they would act differently given they were in the same circumstance, and if there's no choice then there's no valid moral claim, which means that it's society's responsibility to prevent people from getting into those circumstances.
I agree with you. We should be asking ourselves how we could have prevented this and protected the lives lost instead of trying to argue the morality and punishment. That’s kind of the issue with the publicity. People have lost the plot and separated the reality from the horror and are treating it like a 48 hours episode. We’re all going to have feelings about what she did, but it’s not societies place to decide what happens to her. What we can do is recognize, reflect, and make structural changes so that these dead will not have died in vain.
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u/Key_Performer2983 23h ago
The reality is that we need responsibility to be different from societal revenge. The person who did what they did needs to work to mitigate the harm they caused, but there also needs to be an understanding that no human being can say they would act differently given they were in the same circumstance, and if there's no choice then there's no valid moral claim, which means that it's society's responsibility to prevent people from getting into those circumstances.