Social isolation and exclusion is one of the most negative of human experiences to endure. That is the reason that solitary confinement is outlawed universally, at least in general, because it is known to be cruel and to even cause people to break down because it is intolerable. The same isolation and exclusion is felt when someone is bullied online and feels they are being shunned by any and all because that is their world as they experience it, that circle of individuals they have connected with through social media, and if those individuals turn on them by taking a dislike to something they think or believe it can be a devastating judgment and condemnation that will leave deep wounds and make life become intolerable. That is a good illustration in consequences that explains why the cancel culture is promotion of a kind of poison. It is condemning a person and destroying them by making them anathema and, in effect, no longer in existence when they have been run out of town, so to speak, and perhaps excluded from a group of former friends and perhaps fired from a job where they are felt to no longer fit in because of a misstep and going against an ideological requirement of a group holding the greatest social power and control.
This is highly dangerous because it is capable of causing such harm. It creates an environment where there will be many victims and perpetrators, both, being generated at frequent intervals; both are states of divine non-alignment with consequences; both will incur karmic penalties, and will be much greater for the perpetrator, the one making the judgment to exclude another, to cancel them, in effect, because of an ideological misstep in their perspective so that victim suffers a consequence. Here again, we have an act of bullying that goes beyond horseplay and petty squabbles, but can cut to the core of personal identity and shattering self-worth and confidence with lifelong consequences in some cases. In effect, this is a kind of criminality to indulge in such conduct and it is a symptom of the disconnection from the divine suffered by humanity, that living in such a way exists at all, let alone becomes a mainstream dominant activity governing human affairs.
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