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title: But, why?
date: 2024-09-14T05:15:33-04:00
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description: "We still don't know why."
tags: [ "why", "justification", "reasoning", "hate", "greed", "explanation", "accusation" ]
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  author: Evan Dennis
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As they say, "This is the million-dollar question.", after all we have been through we still do not know what we did to deserve so much hatred. We are even unsure if those who are involved in the persecution know what we did either. It just looks more and more thuggish, and purely hateful with each passing day. Whatever great crime we are accused of committing against mankind, it can't justify the underhanded crookedness of what we have been put through. We can only grasp at straws as to what it could have been to incite the hatred we received. 

Could it have been what we wrote, maybe it was some outlandish idea we violated some a social norm, maybe it was just that we got in the way of someone else's money, or maybe there doesn't have to be a reason at all. It really doesn't matter, because the crime doesn't justify the punishment. Besides, you don't punish someone and not inform them what they are being punished for. Punishing someone who does not know or understand what they are being punished for, is like beating a blind man for being unable to see. It's just cruel, barbaric, and heartless. Not that it would matter to those who have persecuted us, who were all told of how their actions would hurt us, and every time they chose to hurt, rather than do the right thing and leave us alone.

It could not have been anything we wrote in the paper, because we never used any names in direct reference to criticisms made, and we were not writing about any one specific person. We intentionally directed our criticisms at a mindset, which was not based off of any one person, but rather a way of thinking we have routinely encountered in our life. So, if we didn't refer to anyone in particular, it is hard to understand how we could be blamed for anything.

The idea that we somehow managed to violate some social norm by being concerned about something happening on someone else's land is by all means preposterous. Once whatever it is that is going on travels over to our land, effects what we do, or impacts the community we have invested in, it is then undoubtedly our problem and usually too late. What surety do you have that whatever it is that is going on won't impact your property? You certainly can't take someone's word for it, because people make mistakes, have misunderstandings, and sometimes even lie. The best measurement of assurance is knowledge of whatever it is going on. Which is hardly a reason to drive someone out of the county over.