Antisocial Teachings

Mr. Hashemi, who had just been fined, kept convincing himself by saying, “There must be some good in this fine… If there were no traffic fines, no one would follow the rules… Bless them, it actually turned out well…” However, every five minutes, he would get angry again as he recalled the amount of the fine. He thought about what he could have done with that money: he could have bought his wife a nano-sized gold ingot. He could have purchased a few millimeters of land in the best parts of the north and planted a single grain of rice there and cultivated it. He could have gone to Milad Tower just to lick a gold-coated ice cream and come back. He could have…