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Murders in this country have a name: isolated.

A woman is murdered: isolated.

A child dies: isolated.

Someone is killed in the street, at home, at work; isolated.

This word performs the same task every time. It diminishes what has happened, tears it from its context, and disperses the responsibility. It portrays the systematic as singular. It presents a recurring violence as if it were an exception.

Yet there are no singular events. There are deaths committed in the same manner, explained in the same way, and forgotten with the same speed. The perpetrator changes, the method changes, but the result remains the same. Then the same sentences are formed, the same explanations are given, and life goes on.

The moment it is called "isolated," asking questions becomes redundant. The questions of why it happened, how it happened, and why it wasn't prevented before are suspended. Responsibility remains hanging in the air. No one is fully guilty.

This word normalizes the murders. It turns them into a habit. It prepares the ground for the next news story. Because the things called "isolated" do not end here; they multiply.

The problem is not individual rage. The problem is not the mind of a single person. The problem is the order hiding behind this word. A system that narrates deaths one by one while denying the whole.

It is not the murders that are isolated here.

What is isolated is **justice**.