‘Vicaria’ is not the word, by Matías Vallés

The thing is the name of the thing. Surely adopted with the best of intentions, vicarious violence is a unfortunate expression if it determines the murder of a child at the hands of an abuser. Each person dies in himself, and that supreme dignity cannot be taken away or contextualized. There is also no room for a delegation, according to the definition of vicar ‘set out in the Dictionary, who has the power and faculties of another person or substitutes for him. Vicariousness contains a denigrating focus, a additional verbal assault on the murder victim.

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