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“In fact, the reality of the trauma we suffer makes it difficult to distinguish between what we most fear and what is actually happening, what happened in the past and what is happening now. It takes some careful work for those distinctions to emerge in a stable form for clear judgment. The obliteration of those distinctions is part of trauma’s damage.”

“The law can become abusive by locating abuse as what it opposes; the law can assault lives by imagining the lives affected as assaulting the family; the law can even murder, or let die, when it decides that certain lives are so corrosive or destructive that exposing them to lethal violence, unprotected, is justified.”