"As such, it is an insult for her to suggest the victims owe the villains an apology on the condition that the latter also say they’re sorry. That is not forgiveness—it is a license to abuse once more. Instead, what is owed is punishment and justice.
And justice, proportionate to the crimes committed, would look like military tribunals. It would mean consigning corporate executives and government bureaucrats to death row or life imprisonment. It would bear witness to the professional and personal ruination of late-night hosts, Pulitzer-winning columnists, and politicians, who would never again be able to show their faces in the light of day. Publications, television networks, and think tanks would be shuttered in shame; writers, anchors, and researchers would never be able to work again. Assets and endowments would be seized and redistributed as reparations. The guilty would be written into the books as the villains of the century. And when, like the Romans at the mercy of the Gauls, they would ask for amnesty, we would reply like Brennus: “Woe to the conquered.”"
"As such, it is an insult for her to suggest the victims owe the villains an apology on the condition that the latter also say they’re sorry. That is not forgiveness—it is a license to abuse once more. Instead, what is owed is punishment and justice.
And justice, proportionate to the crimes committed, would look like military tribunals. It would mean consigning corporate executives and government bureaucrats to death row or life imprisonment. It would bear witness to the professional and personal ruination of late-night hosts, Pulitzer-winning columnists, and politicians, who would never again be able to show their faces in the light of day. Publications, television networks, and think tanks would be shuttered in shame; writers, anchors, and researchers would never be able to work again. Assets and endowments would be seized and redistributed as reparations. The guilty would be written into the books as the villains of the century. And when, like the Romans at the mercy of the Gauls, they would ask for amnesty, we would reply like Brennus: “Woe to the conquered.”"