The issue is about the concept of hierarchy, and the only way we'll be free of this kind of abuse is to become a world with as little hierarchy and as few people in positions of absolute dominance over others as possible. The way to stop things like this is, quite clearly, to democratize life.
Written by Ken Burch
Retired Alaska ferryboat steward, grandparent, sometime poet. Radical yet independent of dogma. Likes nice days, playing banjo and not as yet dying of Covid.