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Happy New Year everyone! The first video of the year, releasing later this month, will explore the complicated, and at times rather uncomfortable subject of retributive justice, specifically in relation to vigilantism and vengeance. I will be discussing the power dynamics and politics that come into play, as well as the emotional driving forces that so often connect justice and violence. Stay tuned!

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Susan Price

That should be an interesting topic. I live in an area of the US called the Ozarks, and during and after the Civil War, many vigilante groups fought. During the Civil War, the Confederate militias were known as Bushwackers. Following the war, a group of 'vigilance men' active locally, were known as the Baldknobbers. Missouri before, during and up to the turn of the century, was a very difficult place to live - many old feuds were settled with violence.

Misha Meihsl

I'm really hyped for this one! It's hard to imagine how a force for justice can be respected if it is weak, yet it is also hard to agree on what constitutes justice, and thus what one will view as justice will be viewed by another as tyranny. At some point, as power attracts more power, it ceases to be in the service of something else than itself, so justice with too much power is also a problem. And at a personal level, the same occurs: to right a perceived wrong almost necessarily entails going against someone else's wishes (the perpetrator's, in the best case), but again right and wrong cannot be easily decided, so force should be used sparsely or not at all if possible. If humans could be good without any constraint whatsoever, things would be easier... But for sure, the fact that violence begets itself quite often means we should be wary of how, when, and how much we use it, and make sure that we recognize it as such, and don't disguise it in the costume of virtue and higher values, to such an extreme that we don't see violence as violence anymore.