SWANK LAW XV: We Realise That People Who Hurt Us Aren’t Evil. They’re Lost.

SWANK LAW XV: We Realise That People Who Hurt Us Aren’t Evil. They’re Lost.

At SWANK, we do not mistake damage for darkness.

We do not dress our wounds in melodrama.

We do not crown our pain with victimhood.

And we do not brand others as villains when they were simply unwilling to meet themselves.

Those who hurt us weren’t evil.

They were fractured.

Unconscious.

Performing survival through control, avoidance, or projection.

We were a mirror they weren’t ready for.

Why We Release the Idea of ‘Evil’

Because evil is too easy.

It requires no nuance, no grief, no clarity.

To call someone evil is to stop the inquiry just when it becomes sacred.

We at SWANK do not stop there.

We feel the betrayal, yes.

But we also feel the root.

We do not excuse the harm — but we understand the mechanism.

And that’s what keeps us free.

THE LAW:

Thou shalt not confuse harm with identity.

Thou shalt not bind thyself to the role of the eternal wounded.

Thou shalt remember that pain is real — but evil is often just fear in disguise.

We are not here to hate.

We are not here to blame.

We are here to understand without reattaching, to release without forgetting, and to walk forward unburdened by enemy narratives.

We don’t shrink to forgive.

We rise to comprehend.

And we never forget:

Some people didn’t hurt us because we were unworthy —

they hurt us because we saw them too clearly.