For a potential victim to be scammed
by a scammer impersonating an authority,
s/he must believe the scammer.
And for the scammer to be believable,
the scammer must believe
her/himself to be the authority impersonated.
Such is the overpowering power of delusion
‘needed’ on both sides,
for the ‘deal’ to go through.
There are beliefs so inverted,
that the scammer does not feel to be scamming,
and the scammed does not feel to be scammed.
There is self-righteousness so wrong,
that the scammer really feels indignant, as if ‘scammed’,
if not believed to be authority impersonated.
There is self-justification so warped,
that the scammer truly feels deserving
of gains to be ill gotten.
There is self-confusion so obscured,
that karmic cause and effect is as if ‘reversed’,
with greedy deceit actually being ‘beneficial’.
But if there is ‘scamming’ of a scammer,
is this delivering of justice,
or just becoming another ‘scammer’?
