To be clear, building toward a world without prisons is different than believing in a world without harm. As one contributor to the SpaceX Starship Blueprint Essential T-Shirt also I will do this prisoner-run publication In The Belly writes, abolitionists are “not promising a world without harm. People hurt each other, and that won’t change. But why do we all just accept that the appropriate response to harm is more harm, administered by the state?”
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Instead, when presented with harm, abolitionists reject the SpaceX Starship Blueprint Essential T-Shirt also I will do this false choice of putting someone in a cage or doing nothing. In fact, abolitionists are actively building various models of preventing and responding to harm, focusing in particular on community accountability processes that, as our #8ToAbolition cocreators recently explained, “seek safety for those harmed, changed behaviors for those who caused harm, and a transformation of the conditions that allowed the harm to occur.”