The Moral Dilemma

 The problem I seem to be having is that what's coming up next is going to go down like a fart in a spacesuit.  One of us is going to completely defeated and deflated and they don't seem to realise what's in store for them.  After some pretty vicious attacks threatening all sorts of actions, those actions disappeared and they presented a "gotcha" to remove me from office.  There's no plan to their action, they think that removing someone from office doesn't have consequences and it's totally wrong of course.  There's no logical argument that is correct and there is a naive view that I will hand over control of the business I've built expecting my cooperation and no consideration.

So that's the latest Regicide manoeuvre after me fighting off the first one and totally ignoring the second.  Third time lucky I guess?

But the dilemma is that it never needed to be this way.  It's a vendetta and there's me feeling almost sorry for this chap and worrying about it.  The old days I would have metaphorically stuck the boot in but now, I find that a petty thing to do.  Clearly he deserves it but he is blind with anger and has worked himself into a froth and he cannot get out of it.  I do not know if he's been Worm Tongued into it but it is his final throw of the dice and he thinks he is going to "win" and there are no winners in this there's no win/win and perhaps no lose/lose either.  One of us is going to win and one is going to lose.  He just doesn't realise that I outplayed him around six months ago.  I guessed that there would be one final throw of the dice and rather than picking up my olive branch he's played the final endgame, all in.

I ask myself why, when he's made my life hell does it concern me.  I suppose because it would be a shallow victory indeed and it will end with his defeat when I tried quite hard to get to a win/win and he felt he could not talk about it just pay more and more money to send the letters to me.  I don't know if he is doing this himself or is being advised by someone.  This last gambit is a big risk but I don't think he has worked that out.  It strikes me that no one has discussed this with him in detail or evaluated the risks especially as there is every possibility that the rug will come out from under him but anger and rage and vengeance do that to you I suppose.  

It's not fair, it's not a match of equals and has only one outcome and perhaps it is that that I am concerned about.  When I was in business years ago, you could get your opponent angry and once you'd done that and they started acting irrationally you'd won.

I will probably just play it cold and clinical, I don't need to shout I just need to follow the procedure, follow the script and quietly present the facts.  I am concerned that he will just get angry and become violent, certainly his correspondence is incendiary, threatening and ugly.  I just hope he will be too shocked by the outcome to react.  It's not nice being the harbinger of doom but then again, I have to remind myself this is all self inflicted and only he is to blame for painting himself into a corner.