La société des victimes by Guillaume Erner: When Compassion Becomes a Principle of Government
The CICNS's reading report on Erner's study of victimism, with long extracts: the victim as a social category rather than a biological fact, suffering as a secularised sacredness, moral harassment and the psychologisation of pain, and the argument that compassion, precious in private life, is at best an imposture as a principle of government - read against a French anti-cult policy built entirely on the victim's account.