Simon
Everyone has to have the right to shun people. There is simply no way on earth that the opposite can be legislated for.
You are right Simon.
Shunning is a behavioral response normal to humans.
Anthropologically speaking, shunning happens for heinous actions that threaten group well being. This would result in the shunned ones immediate survival being at risk and thus a return to conforming to group behavior.
What is wrong is the Org took this basic human behavior and harnessed it in to a weapon of their own. THEY tell you who to shun and not shun based not on things people would naturally exclude someone over but based instead on warped concepts and ideals they have come up with.
It is clever group manipulation and JWs are certainly not the only ones who have utilized it.
As man evolves and adapts to a modern world, hopefully this behavior will be recognized as
what it is and will be shunned itself! Imagine that. A world where people shun the concept of shunning.
Then it would fall out of vogue and new tools that work better would be employed by high control groups.
But people on their own? They are always going to shun various individuals based on their own ideas. That is the part that is hard wired in to us.
Which is what makes it the very reason any attempts to legislate it will be relatively ineffective.
