Thursday, May 20, 2010

First Victim.

When you do crossword puzzles regularly, you would have definitely encountered the entry, "first victim."  Answer: Abel.   Slain by his brother, Cain.  These two are characters from the Hebrew Bible, or the Old Testament.

Then we don't hear enough of the warning, " there's a sucker born every minute."

In every crime, fraud, misdemeanor, or wrongdoing, there's always a perpetrator and a victim.  Even in the gone-sour personal relationships, there's always a cheated, used individual versus the user, cheater.

In the business world, there's financial scheming and scam and in the digital world, "scam" or bogus emails and messages. The likes of Maddoff, and Philippine rural banks going on bank holidays (9 rural banks went bankrupt in 2009 alone, and now there's the BMS - taking the money and ruining lives of countless people).

In Philippine politics and elections, there's voting fraud and cheating.

Simplicity.  Where is the start and the end? 



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