When discussing the nebulous concept of ‘accountability’ with people, many have asserted that they don’t feel comfortable defining what accountability should or shouldn’t be.
Beautiful words! I think something I struggle with is that it is actually abusive people who tend to do the most “cancelling” through things like triangulation, lie-spreading, exiling children from their families, dividing and separating family members, encouraging people to cut off their friends and families, parental alienation, domestic violence which in my country leads to extremely high rates of femicide, etc. So I always wonder… what should people who’ve been victimised like this do? Whilst the person who ruined their life usually continues to live a life full of community and family, their victim languishes in solitude knowing there are people who hate them for no reason and/or being continuously abused and shamed by the rest of their family etc. It’s all so complicated.
Beautiful words! I think something I struggle with is that it is actually abusive people who tend to do the most “cancelling” through things like triangulation, lie-spreading, exiling children from their families, dividing and separating family members, encouraging people to cut off their friends and families, parental alienation, domestic violence which in my country leads to extremely high rates of femicide, etc. So I always wonder… what should people who’ve been victimised like this do? Whilst the person who ruined their life usually continues to live a life full of community and family, their victim languishes in solitude knowing there are people who hate them for no reason and/or being continuously abused and shamed by the rest of their family etc. It’s all so complicated.