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MAKING AN ISSUE OF IT - THE CAR INCIDENT.

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  It is the nature of our human psyche that we can do each other terrible harm by either verbally affronting them/us, and/or physically attacking members of our species.  Yes, we can also do terrible harm to ourselves by attacking, verbally and/or physically, our loved ones. Of course, being the oftentimes or normally rational beings that we, or most of us humans are, we do not normally automatically mete out retribution to others who offend or even physically attack us.  No, where we have some the opportunity to acquire some time to contemplate our response or reaction, we indulge in consideration of the probable reasons why the perpetrator of the offence had done what he/she has done to us or other victims.  Yes, we consider the probable motive/s; whether they intended the harm we perceive them to have done to us.  The principles of 'motive' and 'intent' are crucial in jurisprudence. We can see the first as helping us to evaluate and understand whether the wrong we pe

IT WAS WRITTEN IN THE STARS - AN ACCOUNT OF LIVES IMPACTED BY 'EVERYDAY ADVERSITIES.' PART 93.

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  Again, Kazaliwa applied himself to his new tenancy with much determination, pride and commitment to making it his home.  Like his previous tenancy, this one was comprised of a room and a shared kitchen and shower and toilet. It also had the added luxury of having a washbasin in the bedroom.  Kaziliwa was fated to remain in this tenancy for probably 2 or so years. He was to take an added pride in establishing a good standard of management of his new home, having had a vision of how he wanted it to look.  It was transpire, as time went by, that the challenges of him maintaining his new home as he had started, would again defeat him somewhat.  Not least because of the difficulty in getting all the tenants in multi-occupied houses to exercise their collective responsibilities for maintaining proper standards of tidiness and cleanliness in the communal areas.  Such as keeping the corridors, shared kitchen, bathroom and toilet clean and reasonably tidy.  Even with Kazaliwa's best endea