Depravity is, to the mind consumed by the billionaire mentality, a flex. It's the prize. It seems the whole reason for the money in the first place. The more you can make other people suffer, the more the rules don't apply to you.

The worse a crime you can commit, and the more blatantly you can do it, the more you can demonstrate your impunity to the most foundational laws of human decency. I think this is why child rape is so popular with billionaires.

I suspect it's less a proclivity for younger people that drives billionaires to child rape, but the fact that child rape is a crime seen as unforgivable. To a mind consumed by billionaire mentality, to rape children with impunity demonstrates beyond doubt that you are immune from accountability.

And whenever the hummock of the depravity iceberg pokes out of humanity's waters, there are those—even those who do not have the ability to pursue depravity with impunity—who nevertheless instinctively rush to defend the precious reputations of our depraved decency-exempt overclass.

his sort of thing came out during the Me Too movement. It usually started with a quick admission that, yes, the alleged crimes were terrible and should be taken seriously. This brief sop to decency expunged, the defender moved quickly to worry about the danger of expanding the scope.

How far is this sort of thing supposed to go? we were asked. How many careers will be ruined? Where does it all end? This reaction ... it’s an unnatural instinct, culturally taught, buried deep. It’s a statement of alignment. An abuser culture will always double as an enabler culture.

In an enabler culture, revelation of the offense is the offense. This—yet another moment when it becomes obvious that powerful men consume women and children for pleasure—is going to be framed, once again, as a scary time for powerful men.

Where does it all end? is the big question. The assumption being that what has happened thus far will be permitted, but the instinct for exposure of abuse moves us in a dangerous direction that could easily go too far. The implication is that it may have already gone too far and probably has.

The clear call to action is to stop exposing so much abuse, to avoid the moral dangers of looking at all of it. Where does it all end? is the sort of question that somebody asks when they don't want it to end, and they don't even want the process of ending it to begin.

So often the question is “have we gone too far?" So rarely is it the statement: "They have gone too far." So often the question posed is "where does it all end?" So rarely is the question “how will we make this end?” But I'll answer the question, now.

It ends with a society that doesn't permit abuse, and doesn't extend abuse as a perk of power. It ends with a society where wealth cannot buy abuse, because the human prosperity it generates springs only from universal human plenty, and does not permit the sort of wealth that abuses.

It ends with a world where power does not offer immunity, because power comes with an understanding that law enforcement mechanisms are targeted toward and enforced most vigorously against the powerful, not the powerless.

It ends with systems that recognize that power is a sacred public trust and a grave responsibility, and will not bestow privileges of impunity and enablement, but rather will carry far greater regulation, scrutiny, and penalty for abusing that trust, than the standard to which others are held.

It ends when we have a society not of abuse but of universal thriving, where the cost of abuse is high and paid only by the abuser; where natural costs of human society are shared equitably, where any who benefit more will also be naturally expected to pay more, & will not be permitted to pay less.

It ends with justice and liberation from the abuses of supremacy and the tyranny of the supremacist billionaire mindset. Where does it end? Wrong question. Let me ask a new and better question. Where do we *begin?* www.the-reframe.com/where-it-ends/

Where It Ends