They have grown used to
the miasmas. They do not want to have it any other way. They
would not be able to exist in the clean air of Jinnistan. These
are by no means just the poorest and lowest, but even more so the
richest and most distinguished inhabitants of the land: the
pharisees, who need sinners in order to appear righteous, the
prosperous, who require poor people for contrast, the lazy ones,
who must have workers for their convenience, and most of all the
smart, cunning ones, for whom the stupid, trusting, honest ones
are indispensable, to be exploited by them. What would happen to
all those privileged ones, if the others were not to exist any
more? Therefore, everyone is most strictly forbidden, to leave
Ardistan and to escape the pressure of its laws. But the harshest
punishment is inflicted upon him who dares to flee to the land of
neighbourly love and humanity, to Jinnistan. The border is
guarded. He will not get through. He will be apprehended and
brought to the "spirits' furnace", to be tortured and tormented,
until the pain forces him to beg for forgiveness and to return to
the hated oppression.
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