HOW ABOUT AN EXAMPLE WHERE SOMEONE
USED A STRENGTH AGAINST ITSELF?
I'm glad you asked that!
Casanova, the great lover, was once faced with such a dilemma. The story goes that the King, tired of Casanova’s philandering, offered the Count a choice. Before an audience the King gave Casanova a choice of two folded pieces of paper on a silver plate. One of the pieces of paper says you will receive a large sum of money, the King told Casanova and the crowd. But, the King continued, the other says that you will leave this city immediately and not return for ten years.
Casanova was no fool and figured that the King had actually put the same message on both pieces of paper and the message was not to receive a large sum of money. Casanova could not refuse to choose one of the two pieces of paper, he could not insinuate the King was a liar because this was treason, and, with an audience watching, he could not try to talk his way out of the situation. He had to choose one piece of paper or the other -- yet he KNEW that both held the same fate.