It seems to me that one gets **** on, and the other does the *******. (Not directly you see; this ***** exchange is done through a third-party.) One swallows his pride for the sake of relief, and the other is proud of the way that he stinks.
Taking a dump on morality
"And for that one moment of freedom you have to listen to all that love crap . . . it drives me nuts sometimes . . . I want to kick them out immediately . . . I do now and then. But that doesn't keep them away. They like it, in fact. The less you notice them the more they chase after you. There's something perverse about women . . . they're all masochists at heart." - Henry Miller, The Tropic of Cancer