People don't like to hear things they don't like, so community leaders would send people the community doesn't like to deliver bad news, in hopes that they would not return. This way the community never had to directly kill people for petty reasons, as they were only guilty of bring up crap nobody wants to hear.
The caravan was attacked and you let him go, everyone knows that you always shoot the messenger of bad news!
by PinkFuzzyBunnySlippers August 23, 2023
Get the always shoot the messengermug.