The oldest "con" in the world is to treat a person badly; to spurn someone, systematically destroy their spirits, make light of their sufferings, visit unfairness upon their plight, and to twist their judgement by encouraging them to ingratiate themselves through graft, only to condemn, in mock earnestness, the base and lowly nature of that person; the inevitable "stain" that cannot be erased, etc., as if to confirm what someone else wanted to think, suspected, or already believed about that person, etc; but in reality is only the likely outcome of the sum total of maltreatment suffered by that person, which would produce probably the same or a similar result more or less regardless of the identity of the sufferer. The stain of guilt is thereby transferred from the oppressor to its intended victim, who by this time is usually unable to rally his or her defenses in order to escape from the trap set for them through the malevolence of others.
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