You're right, Max. I might only be a homicidal kidnapper.
But it's always struck me that the moral of the story, at least as Browning lays it out (and he's really my only source, since I've read it to my son countless times over the years), is that you should always pay your bills and keep your promises. He never says that the reason you should do this is that the person you cheat may be a psycho. It's always as if he is endorsing the completely understandable and justifiable reaction of the sane and decent person who has been mistreated in business.
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