Microcosm of all History and Law

"...in general, the validity of an inference does not guarantee the
truth of the statements in the inference. The validity only assures us
the truth of the conclusion assuming that the premises are
true."-http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Modus_ponens_and_Modus_tollens

I heard mention of a new witch hunt cutely named, "The Difficult Neighbor Problem". Amazing is it not that human sin has not changed in over 10,000 years. A kind of chronic peripateia. In that the persecution of undesirable neighbors has been a central issue of most conflicts and the propagation of a choking volume of legislation seems too coincidental to ignore.

Psychology would suggest that the offended is a projecting neurotic, blaming the undesirable for not being a slave to the offended's claims, justified by the assumption that all must do for the common good, while denying the responsibility of helping in respect of a greater good for all because the offended is not considered as being offensive. "That's not junk. It's lawn art."

Who is the offender? Claimant or defendent? If negligence is an offence, then both are guilty under the law. The first (claimant) for denying the first sufficient assistance to satisfy the claim, the second (defendent) for lack of maintenance. Burden of proof problem.

Our Constitution was born out of a conflict over undesirable neighbors, and how to best negotiate the due by process of rule of law. Oh boy, is that where we have descended to, or from?

If a flag and gun toting zealot were to clean up property not his own, who would say he had done it wrong? He did it wrong by the method he used if a flag and gun were involved. (It's difficult to work a pump or a shovel while holding a flagstaff or a semiautomatic rifle.) There were few reports of helpful assistance rendered by the armed militia preventing looting as residents struggled to save lives and property during hurricane Katrina. Older times also included sharp instruments of division of fleshly parts, or simply stabbing the offensive object to cause death by hemorrage. Modern times include Eminent Domain and bulldozing. Witchcraft, voodoo, sorcery, specific extortion, and nonspecific aggravation.

Rational thinkers not. Irrational human beasts more likely. And isn't it odd that the beast claiming to be offended, offends as a beast?

agent provocateur is defined as: n. Person employed to detect suspected offenders by tempting them to overt action.

Agrarian agorophobics I say

33:002:004 In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and
lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly
spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he
removed it from me! turning away he hath divided our fields.

35:002:006 Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a
taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that
increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that
ladeth himself with thick clay!

40:013:037 He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed
is the Son of man;

40:013:038 The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the
kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;

40:013:039 The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end
of the world; and the reapers are the angels.

40:013:040 As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so
shall it be in the end of this world.

40:013:041 The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall
gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them
which do iniquity;

40:013:042 And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be
wailing and gnashing of teeth.

40:013:043 Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom
of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.

40:013:044 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a
field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy
thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that
field.

40:013:045 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man,
seeking goodly pearls:

40:013:046 Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold
all that he had, and bought it.

40:013:047 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast
into the sea, and gathered of every kind:

40:013:048 Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and
gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away.

40:013:049 So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come
forth, and sever the wicked from among the just,

40:013:050 And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be
wailing and gnashing of teeth.

40:013:051 Jesus saith unto them, Have ye understood all these things?
They say unto him, Yea, Lord.

40:013:052 Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is
instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that
is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure
things new and old.