Theory

Proportionality is why we instinctively feel it’s wrong to, say, banish someone from society just because they failed to pay a parking ticket or because they relapsed into addiction. There’s a deep human intuition that responses to wrongdoing or hardship should not destroy a person’s basic dignity and prospects. The law isn’t always so compassionate, but the ideal persists as a guiding light.

Borderline Personality Disorder functions as an administrative alias for trauma-shaped behaviour. Systems discount testimony; that credibility deficit breeds isolation; isolation matures into a moral exile that feels like volatility because human beings escalate when unheard. Philosophers call the first move epistemic injustice and the aftermath ethical loneliness—the abandonment that follows harm when institutions refuse uptake

caring shouldn’t just happen in isolated, private bubbles; it should be a collective responsibility. In a caring society, people support each other with mutual trust that everyone will do their part when they can. Tronto argues that we need to think of democracy itself as a system for distributing caring responsibilities fairly

Yes, I am fragile. I have been forced to survive things that should have broke me, but didn't. It would be concerning if I were not worse for wear after surviving what I have. My fragility is not a result of weakness, but rather evidence of my resolve to survive that which I had no right surviving.

What I asked was simple: If you believe in justice, start here. If you believe in access, help carry my case. If you believe in truth, stand beside my account. If you believe in care, risk being changed by what you hear. But Joe Ceci didn’t.

When the pain is intense enough, you cease to be someone in the world. You become a body against the world. The bench beneath you becomes strange. The air seems distant. Language cracks under the pressure. Even your name starts to feel like someone else’s.

Ever wonder how someone “snaps”? This isn’t about madness—it’s about process. Bureaucracy doesn’t just fail people; it sometimes creates the very dangers it claims to prevent. Here’s a breakdown of how dangerous people are manufactured—not by ideology, but by institutional silence and moral collapse.

I walked away from a significant financial offer, enough to keep a roof over my head, enough to buy time, finish school, stabilize. I knew exactly what it would cost me. I did it anyway. Because I knew what signing would mean.

our systems don’t actually understand happiness. They understand compliance. They understand visibility. But they don’t know how to ask whether someone’s life contains any reason to feel good—not abstractly, but concretely. They mistake survival for health. And they mistake emotional numbing for success.