It's disorientating to read Valerie's Twitter comments
after Chris Sims' apology. It works to emphasise how this is something still very real and immediate for Valerie, but distant and abstract for Sims.
I agree that people can change, and I believe he has but how do you even deal with it? Like, there should be some consequences, yea? But I don't know how far that should even go. Idk. it's hard to gauge
I think it is at this point that you examine what the point of punishment is, and whether it should have retribution or rehabilitation as its focus. On the one hand, Valerie's pain is still very present, and on the basis of her feelings one is easily moved to feel that Sims should be brought to account for how she feels now. On the other hand, if one believes at all in the principle that people can change, and if Sims is at all sincere in stating that he feels he
has changed, then what would the point of punishment be apart from solely securing that an appropriate punishment has been delivered? (I guess you could argue that the punishment might be a form of deterrence to others, but then you get into issues of utilitarianism.)
Did not know about the campaign threatening to "expose" him though, sounds like some 4chan shit
Eh, I felt that that part of the ComicsAlliance post was off. It seemed like it was framing Valerie's tweets as part of that campaign to "expose" Sims.