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    It is not the case that Rehabilitative healing of persons does not follow automatically from communal reconciliation rituals when the structural conditions—land, wealth, institutional racism—that produced the harm remain intact.

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    • 1.Reconciliation rituals produce genuine psychological and social benefits measurable independent of economic restructuring outcomes.
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    • 2.Structural reform and communal healing are distinct goals; requiring both simultaneously may paralyze progress on either front.
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    • 3.Individual rehabilitation can occur through changed relationships and dignity restoration, even within unchanged economic systems.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Psychological healing requires addressing root causes of trauma, not merely acknowledging harm through symbolic gestures.
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    • 2.Material deprivation (poverty, landlessness) perpetuates cycles of harm independent of emotional reconciliation between parties.
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    • 3.Rituals without resource redistribution can become mechanisms that absolve perpetrators while leaving victims structurally vulnerable.
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