Let me tell you a story...
Forgive me any errors in my telling. For it was told to me in another language when I was a small child.
Once upon a time. There was a man. A liar, a rogue, a thief, a murderer...
Who had never done a good thing in his life.
But, one day as he was walking along a path he came upon a crowd of children teasing a spider.
Surrounding it, poking it with sticks as it scuttled hither and thither.
Finally it curled into a tiny ball, and as the children bored of batting it around one of them raised his stick above his head ready to bring it down and deal the spider a deathblow.
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