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Over a thousand Steves...

Let me summarize what happened.

There’s this guy, called Steve. He has a mother. One day, his mother was murdered by their landlord. So what does Steve do?

Well, he goes onto the street and finds a random person. He tells the random person about the story and highlights the injustice of the situation and the grief that he felt. The random person sympathizes, but decides to move on like you’d expect any normal person would. Steve however blocks his way, and tries to physically constrain him, yell into his ear, and attempt to forcing him to help Steve do something about the murder.

Then when the police come to take him away for assault. Steve cries “so what?! The inconvenience I’ve caused him is nothing when compared to the fact that my mom was murdered!”

See, this is one reason why I’m not very trusting of a lot of these advocacy groups. They tend to be fueled primarily through emotions when the problems that they’re trying to address mostly require rational solutions. Of course, they know this too, but they’re prone to emotional outbursts, like this one, that only complicates things and does nothing to help solve them.

Also, why does every advocacy group always have to label someone as the villain? The world is way more complicated than the black and white concept of good and evil, and most of these sad and horrible things are the results of decades after decades of misunderstandings and failed negotiations. Every time a group is labeled as evil, I can’t help but to wonder whether that group can really be blamed given the situation they had to deal with.

Story here
Youtube video here and here.