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        There can be nothing more mortifying than desires challenged by impotence. Patent injustice begins then to rule the roost and the sufferer is helpless.

        Legends are aplenty about rulers humbled by their impotence in terms of money and material to protect their country from aggressors.

        The desperation of their subjects would be greater when their ruler barters away his right to judge and decide to an invader whom he courts against his rival.

        The nation, social groups and individuals are equally afflicted by oneupmanship attempts in which ethics is the first casualty.

        Nations become enslaved, social groups get contaminated by scheming stratagems and the individual succeeds only in breeding enmity around him which would destroy his peace.

        Texts say that one's commitment to his wife and children besides parents cannot be abandoned and also that family code should not be at variance with the social code.

        There have been instances of whole families ostracised by society and a whole lineage had become extinct in that process.

        There had been exceptions when a family saved itself from social obloquy by renouncing the one who had brought the family into disrepute.