u/56king56

I see a lot of people online saying how awful it is that there are men who see themselves in Bear when watching the film, and while I completely agree that it’s a bad thing to see yourself in someone so sociopathic, abusive, and cowardly, isn’t it also part of the point of the film to be a sort of “wake up call” to men? To demonstrate that any man could be like this, to encourage men to look at themselves and be aware of their capacity to have similar characteristics to Bear (even if not as bad all the time), and ultimately inspire these men to work on themselves as a result in order to avoid being like Bear?

I understand that many men who see themselves in Bear take it as an opportunity to defend Bear rather than look critically at themselves, and that that’s shitty, but I feel like the act of seeing oneself in the villain doesn’t have to be a bad thing if you are emotionally mature enough to improve on yourself as a result.

Given that Leftists (like myself) are staunchly opposed to the U.S. justice system, I assume that means we are against the jury system too, but why? It’s allowing for there to be input from the average citizen on a case, and feels to me like a decent community-based way of coming to conclusions on a case, which I understand to be the general direction Anarchy would be taking dealing with crime. I understand there could be issues with jury selection, and biases within the jury depending on who is picked, but are there any fundamental issues with the system that I am missing?