just a sorry?

Was listening to Carter Sherman and Trevor Noah talk abut sex - a great podcast, by the way.

In it, at one point, Carter said she was sexually assaulted in college. She didn’t report it and nothing really happened. Later Trevor asked her what “justice” would have looked like and she said, simply along the lines of Just a sorry. Just an acknowledgment of what was done.

Which led to a discussion about punitive justice and restorative justice.

Which led them to the fact that punitive justice often has more money and so we often seek it, instead of just a sorry (where that works - which is, obviously, not all the time.)

But all of this really stuck in my head. Wow, even our justice is often about money in our culture and, because of that, we just miss out on so many opportunities to just say sorry and to just hear sorry.

Ugh.