Toxic legalism prioritizes laws over serving the needs for which they exist. Here are at least 5 ways we slip into such legalistic disarray.

Responsivism is the belief and practice that responding to each other's needs produces better results than hostile legal options.

ENGAGE! Earn a reputation for resolving needs, even if that requires transforming social norms that get in the way.

Since every natural need exists as an objective fact, any morality addressing it includes an objective element not always morally relative.

A bulk of overlooked needs in society result from professional power relations and their unresponsive institutions. Social power silences...