No, the average Bantu always had a dilemma; live with the wild tribes and never know when some witchdoctor's tagati would strike him down; or live with the umlungus and respect his authority (and his sjambok).

Why was she covered in diarrhea?

In the first place we may conceive many of these ornaments were only temporary, as used by the fashionists of that age, which, afterwards disused, both name and thing came to be abolished. […] For instance, it would pose a good antiquary to describe the exact fashion of herlots, paltocks, gits, haketons, tabards, court-pies, chevesails, and gipsers, barbarous names which may seem to carry a spell or conjuration in the mention of them. Yet all these were kinds of garments commonly used in England some four hundred years ago.

So is the argument that all that social good justifies Evan’s manipulative means? Or is the film critiquing the way we all glom onto strangers’ tragedies in order to make ourselves feel like we’re part of something?