MrFacts, it’s ironic you’re using a term coined by Richard Dawkins!
To answer your question, I think of it this way…
Imagine you’re driving down the road minding your own business when suddenly the most gorgeous Lamborghini Murcielago you’ve ever seen forcibly runs you off the road. You struggle to maintain control, but the laws of physics have taken over you sit helplessly behind the wheel as your world spins out of control. Your car careens of the road into a ditch, running over rocks and debris, finally slamming into a tree upside down.
As you stumble out of wreckage, you realize your parents, your spouse, your children are dead—cut off from you forever. Devastated, you stumble up to the shoulder of the road, unsure of where to go or what to do next. Suddenly a van appears, clearly having suffered damage itself, yet somehow able to continue down the road. As it pulls over, the passengers lean out the window and offer you a ride. When you climb in you quickly realize that every other person in the van had been run off the road by that same Lamborghini. Some had been driving by themselves, others with friends or family. EVERYONE though, has a story of this same Lamborghini and they are all bloodied, bruised and broken. As the van limps its way down the road, you all begin to see the blue warning lights of a police cruiser. The closer you get, you all suddenly realize that the police have pulled the Lamborghini over, handcuffed the driver, and the police are writing out the most expensive traffic ticket in history.
You look at your fellow van passengers. Some are crying with joy, others feel an overwhelming sense of justice wash over them. You begin to feel warm vindication spread across your body, through your body, down through your fingertips. FINALLY, what caused you and so many others so much pain is suffering is brought to justice. Some can’t restrain themselves—they lean out the window at shout insults at the driver, they are overwhelmed!
Was it the Lamborghini’s fault that so many were hurt, that so many lives were ruined? No. It was the driver. The driver had his hands on the wheel, his foot on the accelerator. The driver decided how slow or fast to go, whether to swerve left or right. The driver made damaging decision after damaging decision. But the driver never cared, the driver only carried about where he was going. The driver convinced himself that all those dead or injured brought it upon themselves. “It’s their own fault – they were going too fast / too slow / in the left lane when they should have been the right lane /
I speculate that so many people here have had their lives so completely destroyed—marriages broken, parents, siblings, children cut off forever because of the decisions and actions of those drivers (i.e., Elders, GB, etc.) of the Organization, that when those drivers finally get penalized or act foolishly, the natural reaction is to celebrate and share their joy with everyone.
Just my $0.02….