• MangoCats@feddit.it
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    11 hours ago

    Not only the courts, I find many areas of life where “right and wrong” are best treated as a sort of ideal, aspirational thing, not something to invest a lot of energy in upholding - if you’re interested in overall quality of life. Especially when dealing with our (disabled) children and the school system, but also medical malpractice and other situations, there are fights we could have taken to court, fought hard - at great personal expense not only of legal fees but also time and emotional energy - and won the court case, but lost overall in terms of achieving the things we really cared about - that time and money was put to much more productive and life enhancing uses than “making a stand and proving the injustice.” You can argue that we “shirked our duty to society” by allowing the injustices to continue, I argue that society shirked its duty to itself by making tthe injusticies so individually costly to expose and correct.