Screengrab from BBC.com
Short thought for a late night: 16 year old kid takes the fall for a failed state and desperate measures. Smalltime traffickers on the border get busted for an insatiable national drug habit written into the DNA of pop culture. Parking tickets are left on the windshield of an auto-obsessed city choked with inefficient cars.
Cap and trade policy turns heroes into victimizers and gives rebels the right to be cool.
It’s not that justice isn’t deserved. But enacting it often means radically distilling complex problems; purposely foregoing the forest you can’t save for the tree you can burn while you have the chance. It sets up asymmetrical power structures that are counterintuitive and confusing to people on the outside. And at some point, it goes from momentum to monotony.
Justice can be a terribly hard thing to brand.
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