> as usual the issue is how to behave when you are a decent person instead of a ruthless person. It is anything but decent for a decent person to refuse to be ruthless when ruthlessness is the only thing left to preserve those people and things that are decent and worthy. This was a hard lesson to learn. In the face of the indecent and ruthless, ruthlessnes in-kind is the most decent thing any of us can resort to. Never suffer exploiters to live.