That's ... not what I was doing? Why read it in the worst way possible?
I'm saying: it's untrue that everywhere else in the world is happy school time, that the problem is unique to the US.
People are people. If you want to understand the factors that drive a person to hurt their classmates, it's even more useful to consider the whole of contexts in which that happens, instead of wrongly pretending it doesn't happen in the rest of the world.
The law as a machine would lose sight of its purpose as a means to improve society.
That's a point of view I don't share, so would like to learn more about.
I believe that that's how people who work in the system think about it too. They always try to guess the perpetrator's motivation, and adjust the consequences as if that guess is correct. To me, it looks like a great benefit for those whom those in power can relate to easier: similar background, lingo, etc. And is horrible for those with a non-standard background or neurodiversity. As even when presented with the same facts, the latter receives a worse outcome.
I notice. Even on this forum many people seem to go "This is OUR problem! You euro's have no idea what you're talking about and we shouldn't work together on resolving it" 😕
Hmm. I don't see the balance here: the conjugate would be the executive enforcing non-existant laws, and the legislative to be able to stop them. That isn't the case.
So clearly, the power balance is asymetric, and lies completely in favour of executive.
Hmm, I can see how it creates a dynamic where the executive, in increasing magnitude, starts to ignore the other branches of government. With a loud minority of the voters encouraging it. Just to spite the previous administration. - "Now it's our time" reasoning.
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