"Are you concerned about others or just yourself?"

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A mouse saw a farmer and his wife open a package, and it was a mousetrap! Running out to the farmyard, the mouse shouted, "There’s a mouse trap in the house." The chicken said, "This is of no consequence to me." The pig said, "There is nothing I can do about it but pray." The cow said, “Am I in grave danger?"

That very night the mousetrap caught a poisonous snake, but the farmer’s wife didn’t see that it was a snake and it bit her.

So the farmer rushed her to the hospital. She came home with a fever. Now everyone knows you treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer went to the farmyard for the soup's main ingredient. Her sickness continued so friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock and to feed them, the farmer butchered the pig. She died, and so many people came to her funeral the farmer slaughtered the cow to feed them.

The next time you hear that someone is facing a problem and think that  it doesn’t concern you, remember that when the least of us is threatened, we are all at risk.

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