An idea from Zhuangzi

A prince sends 2 officials to offer a fisherman the running of his state. Would a sacred tortoise rather be dead, its shell kept in a temple chest, or alive and dragging its tail in the mud? Alive, they say. “I too will wag my tail in the mud.”

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