Well, THAT is a question, all right.
An author I know will never go NEAR her childhood home town, ever, due to PTSD from the horrible abuse she suffered there. I'm pretty sure she could think of at least one positive thing about the town, the school, the region, but I have not asked her or challenged her to do so. How can it be detrimental to search for at least one positive in a place? Ah, ****rather than just move on****, there's the rub. "This place is toxic. Don't go there." vs "I will go back in search of at least one positive." And then... more toxicity. Now I'm wondering how many people live in places where NOTHING good can be found.
"Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life," the Psalmist said, and the region Taylor Beckett maligns in "High Kill" is one where the vast majority of its inhabitants live by that Bible. Or pretend to. Or they imagine they're living by it, but they've made a sacrilege of it, using the Bible to judge, condemen, justify bigotry... where is God with the hurricane to wipe out these places? Lot's wife turned into a pillar of salt because she looked back at the burning city. Apparently we are to believe that God sent Jonah to Ninevah to warn the people to reform or get wiped out by some "natural disaster" aka the wrath of God. We are told that our silence condones evil - if we see evil and fail to oppose it - so how does the lame-@ss "Free Will" premise get God off the hook for no longer sending locust plagues and waves of punishments (See: Moses in Egypt).......????????
Jesus had to shake the dust of his hometown from his proverbial boot soles (sandals).
When animals are tortured and killed, routinely, for sport, and the Bible-thumping animal abusers live long and prosper, for generations, what does this tell us about Justice, karma, and the life of the world to come........
I think I'll go read a fairy tale now, where ogres die and dragons are slain.