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I read a story called The Bet and it was about if there should be death penalty or capital punishment and it was about a banker who threw a party and at the party the guests were discussing about capital punishment and death penalty and there was lawyer who disagreed with death penalty and believed the prisoner should have life in prison, so the lawyer made a bet with the banker to stay in solitary confinement for 15 years for 2 million dollars and the lawyer got imprisoned and he was allowed to read, write, write letters, music, drink wine, and smoke but slowly he got lonely and depressed and then he started reading books and he learned new things, he learned how to speak new languages and he gained new knowledge and then the 15 years were up but the banker had no money to give to the lawyer the banker was broke, because the banker had no money he wanted to murder the lawyer but when the banker went to kill the lawyer in the room he found a letter on the lawyer's desk and it said that he didn't want the 2 million dollars anymore and that there are more important things in life, So there was no murder necessary and the moral of the story was you can turn knowledge into wisdom, but you can't gain from life's experiences without a sense of community.