if you're like even a little bit sincere in your belief in restorative justice you'll keep seeing it forever. "X did Y to Z" isn't important because Z was harmed, what's important is that X is a bad person for doing Y. we can keep bringing up that X did Y forever YEARS after the fact, no matter how the situation has been handled privately between X and Z, because what happened to Z isn't important. What's important is that X doing Y makes X a terrible person forever. You see this a lot in the lily orchard harassment campaign.
I remember a little while back playing a visual novel on stream and someone informed me later that the creator groomed someone. Horrible, obviously, but looking into it the creator already privately made amends with the person they harmed, acknowledged what they did was horrible, plus the situation was several years old. Realistically? none of my fucking business. A resolved situation that does not need to keep being relitigated again by me, who is completely uninvolved. Why was i told about it anyways? because X did Y, and that makes them a terrible person. Why would you associate with a terrible person? why aren't you condemning them?
Because simply put condemning a person forever isn't justice, a person is allowed to fuck up and move on, and continuously regurgitating receipts and being condemned by random strangers on the internet does nothing for the victim.




















