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Now put it all together and what do you get . . . evidence. Yes, evidence is an important little tool when you are trying to make your case for something. Imagine for a moment that you lived next door to a small little child who liked to play soccer with his small little friends in the small little side yard. Now imagine that you woke from a peaceful nap in the beautifully strung hammock in your backyard because something hit you in the face and broke your nose. How could you prove that the child and his little friends were responsible for breaking your nose? You would need some evidence, right?

For instance, how useful do you think it would be if two neighbors were out walking their dog when the ball flew from the child's foot and straight into your face? How useful to your argument would it be if the soccer ball had the child's name printed on it? How useful do you think it would be if the ball had potting soil in it that matched the potting soil found in the child's backyard? How useful do you think it would be if a surveillance camera from the mini-mart behind your house caught the whole thing on tape?

Each of those potential pieces of evidence could strengthen your argument that the child was responsible for kicking the ball into your property and waking you with a broken nose.

If you did not, however, have those pieces of evidence, you would simply sound like a whiny, accusatory, baby guilty of trying to make others' lives miserable solely because yours isn't going as planned. IF there were no soccer ball, no video, no witnesses, no name and no dirt then what could you prove? Very little. You could make groundless accusations and point fingers until you were blue in the face, but very few (if any) people would believe you.

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Note to those who were hurt in some way . . . Have some evidence before you start pointing fingers, or you might just point the fingers in the wrong directions.