There is this playground game that kids play. 

They lock hands and on the count of three, they try to snap each others fingers off. You hold out as long as you can or at least longer than the other guy. The game doesn't end until someone says stop, gives up, cries mercy. It isn't a fun game. In the game of mercy, when one kid cries out, the other one listens and the pain stops. 

Don't you wish it was that easy now? 

It's not a game anymore and we're not kids. You can cry mercy all you want, but nobody's listening. 

It's just you, screaming into a void.