Oof, this story hit me hard. I write about the dominance hierarchy every week, but the glaring example of Rehtaeh Parsons kicked me in the solar plexus.

Unlike chickens, humans are capable of letting go of their need for pecking orders. In fact, that's the only reasons that we survived the Paleolithic age and got far enough to take on a violent dominance based hierarchy - because we suppressed our primate ancestors hierarchies and instead lived in cooperative egalitarian communities. But at this point, it's sure not going to be easy to get Late Stage Capitalism Roosters and their acolytes to stop pecking to death anybody who challenges their idea of the proper hierarchy.