You see, the amputees didn't believe that they would lose their hands.
"The Galaxy Primes"
Edward Elmer Smith
He had expected the same maimed, exploited mendicants whom gangsters, eager for profit that could be coerced by sympathy, mutilated by cutting off limbs and tortured by subjecting these dysfunctional amputees of body and mind to the hopelessness of begging on the streets.
"An Apostate: Nawin of Thais"
Steven Sills