Fear and bigotry don’t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.
Bleeding isn't optional for most of us.
We don't go to the ocean for anything as simple as happiness, do we? We go there to feel alive. Like life, the ocean holds chance and change, grief and terror and beauty. It promises mortality, not peace.
People always wanted someone to blame, didn't they?
Who wants to feel everything everyone else feels all the time?
Don't call the man a claustrophobe just because small spaces scare him. Right.