This is something we have to work out as a society. Even among the far left total-inclusion total-equality community (anyone else? anyone?) there are people who are contemptible, whether for being social renegades, for being exceptionally violent, for being perversely interested in taboos (pedophiles, for instance), for being too rich or too poor, for being the wrong kind of sick or disabled (we crazies get a lot of flack), there are still some we resent.

Fifteen-year-old teenagers are a big group. We want to lock the girls up in the basement and maroon the boys on an island. I’ve heard podcasters recognize that teenage incels in the alt-right-to-MAGA pipeline are being totally abandoned and led by society to join Trump’s War Boys. But fuck those guys.

We need a society that respects the rights and protections of everyone, no matter how despicable or ugly or contemptible or rude they are.

For instance, when investigating violent criminals in the 20th century, we started allowing for illegally obtained evidence, searches made without a warrant, coerced confessions and such, but since the perp committed heinous crimes it was just too difficult to allow them to walk, given what they did… And with time, that set precedent for black guys possessing a gram of crack or paraphernalia, even if they had no record of violent crime or even property crime.

And now the US has, by far, the highest incarceration rate in the world.

So when we start again, rights and protections have to be guaranteed to absolutely everyone. Sustenance sufficient to live has to be available to absolutely every last person. No exceptions, even when they really don’t deserve it. (In fact, by being a human being, they do.)

Until we figure out how to assure the inclusivity circle doesn’t leak, every society will drift toward autocracy. Again.