User blog comment:AustinDR/Overhating/@comment-31789809-20170918181258

For NSL, the punishment may have been slightly overboard but.... how do I put this.... it made a lot of sense for a superstitious family. Personally, I believe that people who believe in stuff like bad luck will most cetainly try to cut off anything that jinxes them by any means necessary. That is why I feel slightly irked when people think this makes Lincoln look completely worthless to the family because the reality is that they would've done the same thing to any of the siblings if they thought they were bad luck. And the karma that applies isn't so much a question of whether Lincoln deserved it or not, but rather the simple fact that these are things that superstitious people will do, so don't put yourself in their line of fire, stupid!