Congratulations! Those people are tiny-minded, shrivel-souled pustules.

“I’ll fight until hell freezes over and then I’ll cut the ice and fight on”

Yeah, I'm surprised they tried to kill it! Isn't this what they're proudly forcing on the rest of us?

or at least, for what people imagine are the functions of the police! You can say "the police don't do the things you imagine they do," as many police abolitionists will say, but that doesn't change our *need* for someone to do those things.

While I reject prison abolitionism, as a feminist, I strongly hold that we can achieve things that no human societies have achieved in the past. (I'm deeply skeptical that we ever had large, complex, non-patriarchal societies).

I have every sympathy with someone who wants to kill their rapist, but none with someone who thinks the best social system for dealing with rapists is to tell victims kill their rapists.

One can only hope.

100%, and as you imply, valorization of ”community” is also in tension with thriving urban life, cities including so many people who fled their natal communities.

Exactly. Lots of people seem to deny there can be such a thing as overpopulation, almost as an article of social justice faith, but there is no contradiction between social justice & acknowledging resource limits.