mommy: "Little Bonehead! How dare you tear the head off of your sister's doll!"
little bonehead: "but mommy, the other kids were tearing off all the arms and legs! I haven't done anything wrong, because they did something far worse before!"
mommy: "but little bonehead, those kids were only doing what kids have been doing for two hundred years. Tearing off heads is a different story altogether!"
little bonhead: "It's all that other kid's fault! I can't tell the difference between normal goings-on and things that cross the line of human decency!"
mommy: "That doesn't absolve you from culpability for what you have done, little man. You have to be accountable for your own actions, not simply compare what you do to what others have done in the past and try to use that to justify your bad deeds."
little bonehead: "but c'mon mommy, it's so easy to blame everything on someone else who came before me. Don't make me have to evaluate what I do with regards to any sort of moral standards! Thats HARD!"
mommy: "I'm afraid that is what you must do."
little bonehead: "No! I've got it.. GOD told me to do it! Yes, that's it. He's on my side, and, er, um, told me that my solutions are just and right!"
mommy: "well then, that's a different story. I owe you my appologies. I'll get in line now with the rest of the dupes."
little bonehead: "I'm picking up your sarcasam. The Lord says that sarcasam is evil, and so I'll have to send you to our gulag- er, detention center with no rights, positioned in perhaps the most ironic spot on earth! There is fair & balanced fox truth, and there is evil, and God does not stand equal beside them."
mommy: "I think you might want to clean your room now; cleanliness is Godliness, my dear"
little bonehead: "eh, that's what mexicans are for!"
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