A scape goat isn’t faultless, just because they’re The Scape Goat.

But it’s one of the cruelest things that groups of people do to an individual, and one of the saddest reflections on human society when it happens.

Nobody deserves, or should need to receive, the blame for everything. Not a goat, nor a son of god, nor a president, nor you or I.

It’s NEVER that simple.

And how insecure and fearful are we demonstrating ourselves to be, whenever we join in that kind of ritualistic destruction, meted onto some poor human soul, because our tribe (whoever they may be) has deemed somebody to deserve the role.

Kindness isn’t weakness. It’s the strength to stand against the nastier tendencies of our own side.