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[paulbibeau]

42. I'll explain.

There is a hint as to what I'm really talking about in every paragraph after the first one. I am going to just put all of those hints right here now. I don't think it will do any good. I really don't. But I feel like I have to try. I am now going to destroy the piece in order to save it. That's where we are...

"They'll feel like their opinions don't count for anything. Like people from some completely alien culture just swept in and stole their voice. Took their autonomy away."

"...and if someone from a part of the world they've never visited just comes over and tell them those values are wrong... well, no one likes that. Everyone gets angry when that happens."

"But then these arrogant and rich jerks, folks who claimed they were from an advanced culture, even though you knew they were just entitled pricks... these insufferable people started ordering everyone around and trying to lecture you about right and wrong in your own home? God, just thinking about it ought to make you enraged. Who do they think they are, right?"

AND THE LAST THREE PARAGRAPHS OF THE PIECE ARE JUST NOTHING BUT A FLAT-OUT OBVIOUS INDICATOR OF WHAT I'M REALLY TALKING ABOUT.

There isn't a single person who likes it when some - let's admit this - some foreigner barges onto the scene, tears up their world, and starts acting like they own the place. People who do that are universally hated.

That's about the absolute stupidest, most jackass way to behave. Anyone who does it is asking to get hurt. Badly.

No one ought to understand this better than the kind of folks who go in for American Sniper.

BOOM. RE-READ THAT LAST LINE. NO, NO... REALLY READ IT.