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Roy Brander's avatar

Cultural change appears to stop when it has been acknowledged as just by the conscious mind, but the unconscious minds are still just not able to accept. The author is catching that pretty clearly, I think. Collectively, you get a "societal unconscious" that's just passively resisting, has to be led by the hand to every acknowledgement, certainly every conviction.

This is what Niels Bohr meant when he said that old ideas aren't really changed, those who hold them just die off. The change is happening, but it has slowed down to the rate of old soldiers dying off. It's important to concentrate on making the young a different generation.

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Marylou Speelman's avatar

There is little with in the justice system to address it either as we see the sentences are the bare minimum to almost nothing at all. The justice system has betrayed victims in the promotion of rehabilitation. Since the Liberals have been in office many more offences have been reduced. For those who say they champion social justice, the reduced sentences and lack of any palatable sentencing is just another slap in the face to the victims of sexual crimes especially when perpetuated on the most vulnerable, our children.

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