One of my favourite games as a child was Police and Thief." I'm guessing some people indulged in this thrilling game too. Hopefully, your role-playing didn't affect your current reality! Na play I de play.
Oh, and if you've never played the game, you've missed something hoooge. Let me educate you!
So, it's a game where you choose to be either a police officer or a thief. You chase each other up and down your compound, acting out your chosen roles, and you equally imitate bullet sounds. Before I forget, you also quarrel aimlessly about who killed who.
The crazy thing is that I currently feel like the game actually had one character with different outfits. Yeah, I said what I said. Don't worry, I didn't come to remind us of how messed up society is and how Mr. Yakubu has increased the resolution of our shege and sapacity! Falz and Vector have done justice to that.
My intention is to make it clear that we can become the very thing we are fighting against. Yeah, it's a fact. We can continue categorising people as good, bad, not so good, moral, and immoral, or we can address the root cause, which is embedded in choices (some of which are made for us). For me, there's never really a case where there's only one choice. I think choice begets choice. For example, if you choose to go to school, you've just opened the doors to multiple choices, such as going for classes, taking exams, bullying people, going to the library, and others.
So yeah, the police became thieves by virtue of choice. Even looking the other way is a choice because you are more or less complicit in whatever happened. You may feel justified in arguing that I'm overthinking, but it's high time we thought intricately about the choices we make. In the end, heroes and villains wear capes. But their image as projected to society is based on the choices they make. So, the outfit shouldn't count.
So yeah, you choose, police or thief? - There's no in-between (no very good bad guyz allowed).
Choose right, live right...
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Police and Thief!
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