So how do we address interpersonal harms?
One great place to start is the abolition of institutions of coercion that abusers can control to shield and further their abuses. There would be fewer interpersonal harms without vast, powerful institutions that can be captured by serial abusers like Donald Trump. Similarly, there would be significantly less murder without states and their militaries and police to monopolize and concentrate violence, like we’ve seen with the Israeli state’s genocide in Gaza.
Many people reading this will not have, in their mental models of crime, “the things that virtually states do on a systemic, routine basis.” But that’s because you’ve been taught that one abuser is a criminal, but an entire institution of abuse is *statecraft*.
Abolish the state and its attendant hierarchies and you reduce any abuser to the same status as any of us: just one person, without the subsidies provided by those institutions and hierarchies.
HeavenlyPossum
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