I appreciate your post here and I'm glad you shared, because it's an example of a distributed harm. One of millions to shake out of this incident, that doesn't have a dollar figure, so it doesn't really "count".
To illustrate:
If I were to do something horrible like kick a 3 year olds knee out and cripple them for life, I would be rightly labeled a monster.
But If I were to say... advocate for education reform to push American Sign Language out of schools, so that deaf children grow up without a developmental language? We don't have words for that, and if we did, none of them would get near the cumulative scope and harm of that act.
We simply do not address distributed harms correctly. And a big part of it is that we don't, we can't, see all the tangible harms it causes.
To illustrate:
If I were to do something horrible like kick a 3 year olds knee out and cripple them for life, I would be rightly labeled a monster.
But If I were to say... advocate for education reform to push American Sign Language out of schools, so that deaf children grow up without a developmental language? We don't have words for that, and if we did, none of them would get near the cumulative scope and harm of that act.
We simply do not address distributed harms correctly. And a big part of it is that we don't, we can't, see all the tangible harms it causes.