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This is why both should be turned off when not explicitly in use.

Thanks for asking! So a lot of laws are bullshit, like sex worker laws and drug laws, can be thrown out at least locking people up for posession and instead help them get help for addiction if they are or if not leave them alone, or using the services of sex workers (or just merely sex workers existing. Sex work is work). A lot of laws around immigration etc are too, so you know.

The only laws then that really matter are stealing stuff and harming others.

The first problem can be solved by giving people what they need to live in most cases. Harm is harder but it could be solved by having more community, talking about these things more often and restorative and transformative justice.

If, however, there are people who for whatever reason cannot stop harming others then yes, there should be something analagous to ‘prisons’ but with the focus being not on mistreating them, profit etc but with actually improving their lives. I believe some countries in Europe follow this model and it works better than the frankly fucked up ones that exist in most places.

Abolish prisons.

The Narcissist Scare by Sarah Z — This explains a lot, the term has been wildly misused and thus people don’t really understand what it actually means.

Plus there is a focus on punitive ‘justice’ very much in the systems we live under instead of either trying to understand people and trying to help them either directly or indirectly.

Allegedly, it is a difficult neurodivergence to live with in a healthy, non toxic way. However, I’ve never personally seen that from anyone I know officially diagnosed with it, in fact they are well aware that they have it and are trying to do better, a lot of people are armchair psychologists and love to diagnose with no proof, misattributing it to other things, either trauma or the systems we all live under which causes people to act in terrible ways.

For those who have genuinely been affected by the actions of those who genuinely have it though, I suspect they feel as if they have to see as everybody with it as exactly the same to try to defend themselves. However, in actuallity this likely just makes people worse because not having community or people to point out when you are doing harmful things or getting you help is likely going to make people act out or seek out others who will reinforce their beliefs instead of encouraging them to get help in ways that actually work instead of the vitriolic hating ways most do to them. Though yes, I get that people shouldn’t have to be around those that do them harm but by seeing anyone of any group as all the same it may be doing more harm than good instead of getting to know individuals.

Personally, I think a lot of the systems we live under don’t help with the behaviour of anyone with neurodiverse conditions nor those that need protection from actual toxicity because they are stagnating and do not allow those that need help to get it due to being alienating and often lacking the resources they need to get help.