If your aim is to stay precarious, proud and precarious, then stay your course. If your aim is to stay loud and proud within a mindless crowd and be precarious ...then stay your course. Otherwise, consider the following: An obvious reason is usually better than a meticulously abstracted excuse. Why do we live with the threat of terrorism? "We terrorize them" is a safer guess (though far less satisfying) than the more popular, "they hate freedom". Which is more likely: "They resent our terrorism against them" or "they simply hate our freedom"? (An obvious reason is usually better than a meticulously abstracted excuse.) www.RussLindquist.info