Why I Love Avedon Carol

[womzilla]

Only two kinds of people think shame and repression and punishment are the answer [to a problem]: people too lazy and ignorant to bother to find out where the problem actually arises, and people who are more interested in repression than in preventing [the problem].

The problem in her original comment was sex crime, but I think her statement generalizes nicely: drug addiction, robbery, terrorism. One doesn't solve a social problem by whacking the manifestation of the problem on the head unless one is so trapped in the ethos of violence and punishment that one does not see any other possible avenue of action.

(From the message boards at Electrolite. This is the type of conversation that used to take place on rasff and still, occasionally, does.)

Comments

[wild-irises.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's lovely.

My only quibble is that "why I love Avedon Carol" can't possibly be encompassed with one quotation ...

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

I remember her name and her posts from the brief period when I read rassf. Very thoughtful person.