Non-story: individuals in a community will tolerate unjust behaviour of their community as a whole provided they are not affected. Communities pretend to recogn

Non-story: individuals in a community will tolerate unjust behaviour of their community as a whole provided they are not affected. Communities pretend to recognise rights of others out of principle, but in reality 'rights' are only actually recognised to the extent that 1) you can defend them; or 2) there is an impartial body who (mostly) enforces them; or 3) there is no advantage to be gained from overriding them. This is a simple story of bullying that is played out in a million different ways every day - it is a difficult thing for victims to cope with. In this instance, the owner of the house has had not only his asset destroyed, but also his dreams of idyllic retirement in a friendly remote village: a hard thing to accept after years of slog to secure it.