Anonymous
Hate and anger will eat you alive and destroy you if you let it. I’ve been there. I hated a lawyer that I paid a lot of money to represent me in a business deal. He worked to screw me, his client. After 10 years of hating him I realized that my hate was not hurting him at all. He didn’t know and if he had he wouldn’t have cared. My hate was only hurting me, so I stopped.
The world is not fair, we all know this. There are people out there that will cheat anybody and everybody they can. You are not a person to those kind of people, you are only a target of opportunity. Something to use up and throw away, like an empty drink bottle. Sometimes this is called dog eat dog. But dogs knows they are fighting a living dog. To these people you are just an object to use up and throw away.
These people are the worst threat we as preppers will face after the SHTF. They will kill you without a second thought for the half of a candy bar in your hand. These are the guys that will become warlords, if they live that long. They are also a threat to you now, everyday. But you have to figure out a way to not let losing a battle with one of these persons cause you emotional damage. Best to figure out who they are ahead of time and avoid dealing with them. If you can’t avoid dealing with them then demand cash (or a cash egualavent like a cashiers check) as payment in full before you hand over your part of the deal.
In the real world it doesn’t matter how smart you are. These people know all the tricks, they use them every day and you have little to no chance against them. I’m a reasonably intelligent person, but I’m also a reasonably honest person and I’m living on SS. What few other assets I have left, I dare not spend! I don’t know those tricks and I have not figured out how to counter many of them.