Think less illness and more…idk…corruption of the mind?
Like we all know power corrupts people. But absolute power, extreme wealth? There’s gotta be an underlying spiral of mental health that allows these people to continue to function, and left unchecked leads to…well, extreme, unimaginable corruption.
I find it hard to believe a bunch of pedophiles became the richest and most powerful people in the world. I find it much easier to believe a bunch of the richest and most powerful people in the world became pedophiles.
queermunist@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
So what if it is?
It doesn’t change the fact that they need to be involuntarily committed for rehabilitation and have their assets seized. For their health.
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 2 days ago
Affluenza is a capitalist framing. We don’t need to capitulate to capitalist framings (not even the tiniest amount) to say that the capitalists need to have their assets seized and be involuntarily committed for rehabilitation 🙂.
queermunist@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
The “monster” framing precludes the idea that they even can be rehabilitated. Monsters don’t get healing, they just need to be put away or executed. That’s still an improvement over letting them run rampant, but it’s a waste.
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 2 days ago
Maybe this makes me a bad anarchist, but it truly feels like capitalists are monsters that can’t be rehabilitated. Like I really want to believe that everyone can be rehabilitated with enough help, but can we really rehabilitate the few thousand people who are like Epstein in finite time?