There was
once a physician who had a patient with a severe illness. Every month this patient, afflicted with
severe pain, would attend her monthly appointment, and the doctor would
prescribe her medicine for her ailment. Month
after month, year after year, without fail, this arrangement was repeated, the
patient seeking a remedy for her prolonged illness and the doctor giving her
relief for her symptoms. As time went
on, the disease was not healed but rather spread and became more severe, but by
gradually increasing the dose of the patient's medicine, the doctor was able to
keep her pain mostly under check.
But,
unbeknownst to the patient, this physician was evil and corrupt, a man who
lusted for wealth and relished the power he exerted over his clients. Although he knew the proper vaccine for the
patient's illness, he kept it a secret from her and instead provided her with a
weak medicine that only treated the symptoms of her disease, in order that he
might keep her dependent upon him and extort more and more money out of
her. Furthermore, the prescribed
medicine, although appearing to treat at least the symptoms of the condition,
actually was designed to make the underlying problem worse, causing the disease
to spread further and more severely throughout the body. This allowed the evil physician to milk his
patient for even more money, as the increased dose and strength of her medicine
also cost more.
The
patient, however, unaware of the doctor's true character and not astute enough
to research the condition for herself, loved her doctor and believed that she
could not live without him. "Without
this physician and his medicine," she would say to herself, "I
certainly would have died by now."
What
think you of this man? And of what is he
deserving?
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