some better at it than others. all your life you are conning people .. first you con your poor mother to bear you for nine months of torture, then you con your parents to support you socially/financially, then you con the school academic system into believing that you understood their ideas, then you con the workplace into a sense of indispensability, you con society into providing you with resources at your disposal, you con yourself into a state of meaningfulness of existence, by the time you are dead you con people into remembering only nice things about you (i do believe that by and large it is still unacceptable in society to insult the dead..)
p.s. (i dont know if there is a gender-neutral version of the word conman)
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This actually sounds completely filmi..if Bluffmaster hadn't released, you could have sold this "punch" monlogue to them.
Not to worry, we will soon have a Tamil remake..the 9 months torture thing has always been a hit with the Dravidian folks.
the nine months was a filmi addon as an afterthought :-) ..
if my memory of the tamil film world serves me right they use 10 months as opposed to 9 .. so im off-by-one
if you seriously believe that you conned them..i'd say you were conned!
for example..by participating in a society which considers it impolite to remember "bad" things, you are buying yourself the comfort that the same will happen to you.
there are similar obvious gains to the "conned" party in most of the cases you mentioned, quite probably all of them.
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