I've got two intellectual methodologies. The first is to toss out a relatively arbitrary, spur of the moment provocation that has crossed my mind, and then backfill it until I have a structurally sound argument or realize I have to abandon the premise. 1/2
The second is to "try on" the approach of a particularly compelling author I'm reading and apply it like a doppelganger to the concepts and problems I'm processing at the moment, until I've integrated it into my own toolkit. 2/2
'Stand your ground' doesn't apply to people who were enslaved, sexually abused, filmed, and finally killed their abusers in self-defence.
Breaking news: A judge sentenced Chrystul Kizer charged with killing the man who sex trafficked her as a teenager to 11 years in prison plus five years of extended supervision.
The decision ends a six-year legal saga that sought to test the limits of the court’s leniency toward survivors of sexual abuse who commit resulting crimes.
a weird thing has happened over the years on (parts of) reddit where dunking on people for not knowing stuff became uncool and being helpful became popular. it’s wild to spend time on a place like twitter that optimizes for assholery and then go to reddit and see everyone acting like this
