Lottery's Q5

Relevance of today:

When you are doing something bad to someone or just looking at someone being hurt, you would not complain about how nasty the treatment is. But only when such things happened to you, then you start lamenting how unfair it is for you to have this treatment and would complain why these things happened to you, and not others. From here, you can see the selfish act of people, they only want the good things for themselves and hope that others get the bad ones. This is also the cruelty of mankind. Friends are not as what you usually think they are. When you are rich, they would try to flatter you to try to get some money out of you. But when you are broke, they would just stay away from you as they can't get anything from you and might not even treat you as friend or help you.
We also tend to flock toward nasty gossip and are interested in spite of the privacy of the subjects involved. Whether it is standing on the side to watch a fight, an accident, or discussing the relationship between two people, we seem to have no problem "butting in" where we do not belong. We have no problem remarking on an individuals' actions until it is ourselves that get caught. We have no problem stereotyping people until is we who are stereotyped. It seems as though we sometimes condemn everyday truths that we know are characteristics of most people, including ourselves, and being afraid to admit them, place the spotlight on someone else. It is sad and definitely hypocritical, but it happens all the time.