Once upon a time, an old man spread rumors that his neighbor was a thief. As a result, the young man was arrested and put behind bars for no fault of his own. After a long time, the poor man was proven innocent. After being released, he sued the old man for wrongly accusing him.  In the court, the old man told the judge very casually as if nothing untoward had happened, ‘They were just random comments, they did not harm anyone.’

The
judge, before passing sentence on the case, told the old man, ‘write all the
bad things you said about him on a piece of paper. Cut it up into little pieces
and on the way home, throw the pieces of paper out of your car window.
Tomorrow, you come back to hear the sentence.’ The next day, the judge told the old man, ‘Before
receiving the…