There are degrees of sickness, right? An asshole business owner who feels entitled to run red lights and speed because they're white and have a nice car and know the police chief's son probably doesn't need life imprisonment or execution.
I mean, I wouldn't really be too upset if they were, but it just seems wasteful.
On the other end, people in the Epstein files might need to be hospitalized for more than a single human lifetime.
The "monster" framing precludes the idea that they even can be rehabilitated. Monsters don't get healing, they just need to be put away or put down. That's still an improvement over letting them run rampant, but it's a waste.
We don't have to consider capitalism to have some kind of doctrine Orthodoxy, as if Adam Smith was a prophet and that deviations from liberalism aren't capitalist. It's still capitalism even if it isn't what Adam Smith envisioned.
Billionaires believe in capitalism, even if they don't believe in liberalism.
Adam Smith didn't invent capitalism. It's not a philosophy, it was an economic system that emerged from certain material relations. Liberalism, and fascism, are just two of the ideological frameworks that can reproduce capitalism's material base and both of which emerge from the material base of capitalism.
I was told that royal families are all ceremonial and that they don't have any real power, but we keep finding them embroiled with people who have real power.
There are degrees of sickness, right? An asshole business owner who feels entitled to run red lights and speed because they're white and have a nice car and know the police chief's son probably doesn't need life imprisonment or execution.
I mean, I wouldn't really be too upset if they were, but it just seems wasteful.
On the other end, people in the Epstein files might need to be hospitalized for more than a single human lifetime.