The Power of Persuasion

In nature's great experiment with
humanity she has invested in the subjects
two opposing gifts to satisfy her curiosity
whether the creatures will manage to
make use of both while advancing
themselves toward a social age of
maturity. Emotions carry with them the
substance of fulfillment and alternately
great harm, while rational thought struggles 
with the more urgent of the emotions 
linked to expressing the virulent and the 
damning. From archaic times to the present 
the predictability of the strong oppressing
the weak has been a constant. Leading
to a casual sympathy among those who
are neither oppressors or oppressed for 
the underdog. In a reversal of reason it has 
become advantageous to those indulging 
in psychosocial gaming intent on role-
changing while upsetting social covenants 
to proclaim themselves to be helpless victims 
at the hands of nefarious schemers whom 
they slander while themselves exacting 
violence upon them. Their dire status
of victimhood accepted, all is forgiven.