It makes vee sad how frequently people's theorized political systems that are the answer to everything™️ address "Okay how do you handle people who, either through opportunism or disdain for you and your system, will continually do harm to others under your system and cannot be reasoned or educated or provided-for out of that?" with either...
- Kill them
- Kill them (but with extra steps)
And yeah "It'd be better than what we have now!" but the problem with that outlook is as your idea of what is possible and what you want grows more lofty, the people who get shuffled into the "Kill them" box expands.
As we're witnessing in 2026, but with a horribly twisted idea of what certain few people want and can accomplish.
I don't let perfect be the enemy of good or "better" but I do have to wonder if this is what we're always destined to be.