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Does Everyone Have A Right To Defend Themselves Now?

Najib
4 min readMar 27, 2024

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I have an annoying neighbour, everything about him and his family ticks me off. The way they walk, talk, cook, interact with each other, celebrate, pray, educate themselves, and breathe. I hate their every act and the more I see them the more I hate them. My elders hated their elders and this had gone for generations. I have never spoken to them or provided any chance for an explanation for these low lives but I am quite sure that they are secretly trying to destroy me and my family. At least this is what my elders had warned us and this is exactly in the letter that we are teaching our kids. For starters, we aren't allowing them to use the street in front of our house and they must take the back streets only when we allow them. We have some nice pedigreed pit bulls to ensure that these small people aren't moving freely like us, the chosen ones. And whenever we want, we shove things at them, break the glasses and windows. You see we have the power and the muscle to shove them around and we will make sure to use that till the end of time.

There are some pitfalls as well as disadvantages to this situation; we are permanently terrified of any eventuality because the small people, do not understand their level in the human standings and do react. How dare they get up and claim their rights or yell at us to leave them alone, let their children go to a school or play in the same neighbourhood as ours. So we took some corrective actions and shoved them in barricaded camps from where they became almost invisible to us. But then…

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Najib
Najib

Written by Najib

Aspiring Author striving for 9 to 5 Independence. Writes about the challenges of daily life. Loves hearing from fellow writers regarding their journeys….

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