If you are not wanted by the masses at large then you are useless and if you are useless then you are expendable. To the extreme if necessary. If you do not conform to the ideals that have been adopted by the prevailing ideology then you should not be awarded the same rights. If you dare believe that you can be something other than what the State expects you to be then you will find yourself struggling for survival against the Bumble.

Loki enters the story at this point in a way that says much about why he is so dang difficult to defeat. Depending on the version of the story you read, Loki’s decision to create some deadly arrows from the wood of that very mistletoe tree that Frigga felt was unworthy of consideration in her obsessive-compulsive need to protect her son was the result either of a brief diversion of his vengeance against Thor onto Baldr, the result of a developing jealousy of Baldr who basked in the love of not just his mother but everyone else or the result of simply seeing yet another opening to prove how incredibly smarter he was than any other creature in any of the Norse realms.