Magick is about will, so no, not particularly. The loch of hair or drop of blood is to even more narrow down who they are if you don’t know anything about them. But people are more than willing to share a massive amount of information with you online. cackles.

Only just did so?

Thank you. Yeah, it’ll be a long road full of twists and turns, but we’ll get there eventually.

I think that’s up to the victim/survivor.

I do not think that reducing it down to always throw the person out no matter what is a good solution. I think punishment to that degree should always be a last resort, and we should work on dealing with the systems that allow such things to happen and give such people therapy, and make sure the variables such as entitlement, the patriarchy, and abuse etc do not happen.

We should give people the emotional tools to deal with rejection and safe people/spaces they can go to without judgement if they have done things or want to do things so they can work through it.

At the same time I believe we should also give victims/survivors (or potential ones) more control and power in this system so they can fight such people off and not be punished for it.

My goal and desire is for a society where people are taught not to do such things in the first place and gave the ability to deal with no etc. However, in the mean time it’s clear a transition is needed and punishing and locking people up clearly does not prevent it, so let’s try something better which might have a chance of reducing and eventually eliminating such actions.

Disagree.

Understandable, I have my own learning difficulties, so I understand. I also grew up with dyslexic people, so I get it.

Thanks for clarifying/correcting, I was genuinely confused.

Sadness? The ability/duty to do something meaningful about it to ensure they don’t do it again, i.e. not punishment but working with them to undo whatever entitlement they have, lessons they have been taught, trauma they have and power structures they are part of that allows them or makes they want to, do it.

Exactly why we need to rethink how we deal with this kind of thing.

Did you mean convicted? If not I’m not sure how convinced makes sense here.

Exactly, that’s why we have to end the punitive and carceral ‘justice’ system that doesn’t work and move to a restorative and transformative justice system instead.

This would lead to less harm over time as it would not only remove the conditions that make people fear speaking out about their abuse, but also lead to teaching people not to abuse in the first place.

The reason why such things happen is because of abuse growing up and a lack of education on how to go about having good relationships with others, gender roles and toxic relationships with those who are supposed to care for us is a huge problem and the current system is incapable of dealing with, catching and changing these problems because they simply put do not wish the status quo to change, it benefits them.

If the power in society was not put with ‘parents’ and allowed communities to catch, educate and modify such behaviour and remove children from such situations over time it would lower such problems. The current system does not seek to deal with the root causes, it only punishes long after any such harm and bad lessons have been taught which clearly does not work.

That’s why we need restorative and transformative justice to remove the core power dynamics in relationships and throughout society which lead to such things, it wouldn’t be overnight, but then the current system clearly doesn’t know how to nor does it wish to get rid of these things and so it isn’t ever going to deal with them.

To be fair it does not say men, it says patriarchy, anybody of any gender can uphold the patriarchy. It does not have to be men.

Edit: Also, despite the phrasing it does not refer to a universal truth necessarily, just any truth of what is happening, what has happened etc.

Humans have so much capacity, even though we are not human, we think they are capable of much good.

Sure. We wouldn’t choose to live with cats. But currently it’s not our choice, so we do what we can.

I’d rather not speculate on their sanity. However, yes, this is based on the observation of always living with cats. The ones we have lived with do not hunt that often and are not that successful at it when they do.

It very much depends on where cats live, how long they go outside and for what reasons. The cats I’ve lived with do not go outside often except to relieve themselves and they are well fed, so they feel less of the need to hunt.

In cities or other urban areas I imagine this is more of a problem. However, where I have lived it seems not to be as much.

It also comes down to temperment, training, and efficacy of the cat(s) and how well you feed them, most people are so utterly convinced and repeat the same inane talking points that all cats will wipe out populations of other species that they never let them out, but I’ve seen that other species are completely fine where I live. Maybe if all cats everywhere were allowed outside, sure, but it’s not so much of a problem here.

can, not necessarily will.

In some scenarios 😉

Thus proving the point that those apps need to exist.

[Sarcasm] We love it when ‘experts’ come out and use mental health against us and who definitely know what they are talking about.

Well, it was also because they wanted to steal their land and other resources.