In this anecdote from Jami's Baharestan, a hunchback is asked whether he would prefer that God straighten his own back like others' or bend everyone else's back like his. He chooses that all be made bent like him, so that others would look upon him with the very same eye through which he looks upon them. The passage sketches a moral psychology of judgment: people appraise others through the lens of their own condition, and the wish to be seen fairly can slide into wishing one's own defect upon everyone else. The closing verse extends this to the pleasure a person feels when a critic is caught by the same fault they had mocked, and to the sweeter state of standing free of that fault oneself. The concept draws out themes of self-perception, reciprocal judgment, and the ethics of ridicule.