The Fine Line Between Consequence Culture and Cancel Culture

An angry mob protesting outside the house of a doctor by Thomas Rawlandson. Wikimedia Commons.

The past couple years, if not more, we’ve heard the argument about what constitutes someone getting cancelled, following an outcry about the dangers of “cancel culture.” In turn, those who are for cancelling people for mistakes, transgressions, or outright bad behavior call it “consequence culture.” Those who are for cancel culture talk about the importance of holding people…