Donβt Be a Victim of Your Empathy
Escape the evil agendas of some of those you empathize with.
Last year, the social media ran the infamous daring of a young man who played a fast move on a border police officer. He was attempting to enter the United Kingdom illegally by claiming to be an underage man seeking for asylum from a repressive government back in his home country.
Back at home, it was glaring to his watching fellow Nigerians that this young man was preying on the empathy of the UK Immigrations police officer. (This is not an incident I am not proud of as there is no justification whatever for telling lies to those who are trying to help you.) Towards the end of the video clip, while the officer went seek for clarifications or report to her superior officers, the illegal alien made his escape into the thick labyrinth of an undocumented mass of illegals in the UK.
Often attributed to Aesop, in the fable of the Scorpion and the Frog, a scorpion wants to cross a river but cannot swim, so it asks a frog to carry it across. The frog hesitates, afraid that the scorpion might sting it, but the scorpion argues that if it did that, they would both drown. The frog considers this argument sensible and agrees to transport the scorpion. The frog lets the scorpion climb on its back and began to swim. Midway across the river, the scorpion stung the frogβ¦
