Tricks of the Gods. The Next Step

Humor can be very painful—especially when the joker underestimates the impact that such pranks can have on the one who ends up involuntarily as the victim. What can you say about the same Gods, who also love to joke? After all, to them, those people are just pieces on a chessboard! It’s a complicated question. Because many such jokers, getting used to a certain peculiar sense of impunity for pranks like these over a given period of time, completely forget that not everyone can appreciate this kind of humor. And for someone else, it might be insulting and painful altogether. Who among them will consider the wishes, opinions, or interests of some insects that they might crush in a single snap of their fingers—by tens of thousands? The answer to this question is even harder to find. And even harder to protect yourself from such pranks. After all, the Gods certainly don’t expect that someone might get offended by their “innocent” jokes…