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The Floor of Dignity: Homelessness, Policy, and the Unjust Scales of Proportionality
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.
Dick Gariepy
Oct 121 min read


Equality of Outcomes in Education: A Case Study of Structural Injustice at U of T
Dick Gariepy | Big Thinky Ouchey I aim to highlight that the presence of accessibility services and emergency funds from the registrar's...
Dick Gariepy
Aug 207 min read


Cruel Realism: How 'Realists' Lie to Themselves (and Everyone Else)
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.
Dick Gariepy
Jul 1613 min read


“Have You Tried Shutting Up and Going Away?"-The Moral Solipsism of Alberta MLA Joe Ceci
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.
Dick Gariepy
Jun 1817 min read


Mental Pain and Medical Neglect: When Suffering Has No Object and No Exit
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.
Dick Gariepy
Jun 313 min read


How To Create A Dangerous Person: The Bureaucrats Field Manual
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.
Dick Gariepy
May 2818 min read


The Distress Center Calgary and the Death of Dialogue
It allows everyone involved to feel like they’re doing something—while ensuring that no one is responsible for doing anything.
Dick Gariepy
Apr 512 min read
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