Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for June 18, 2015

I always knew Calvin was a good kid.

Fire Flies could be a better idea.

Yes, let it fly, it’s more happy in free nature!!

A tiger would know.

But if it had more meat on it a tiger would eat it.

out of seven billion people on earth how many have not caught or tried to catch a butterfly..what you do afterword… that defines charactor

I know. It’s just so… so… beautiful (sniff!)

Too bad that scientist that Calvin was going to sell his butterfly to for some spending cash, now won’t be able to complete his vital tests to end disease in our time. But at least that winged insect is now free!

You never know…

Guilt works.

Must have been a really jarring experience for the butterfly.

I wasn’t able to convince my 6-year old little brother to let a butterfly free. It died in a jar. That was last summer.

Well-said, Hobbes (the tiger, I mean).

Thank you Calvin! That butterfly thanks you and I thank you!

Calvin, I second what Regina said. You are the best, kid.

Heck, we could make rainbows in zoos, but the people would be too busy complaining about getting wet to look at them. ;)

It’s strips like this that makes C&H great.

@The Wolf In Your Midst: Ah, yes…. The incompatibility between Nature and Human Nature.

Wow! Calvin just changed the future! :-)

A rare moment of empathy from our boy Calvin. Maybe there’s hope for him yet…

If you love it, let it go.

No. The bug wasn’t Jacob’s; it was his younger brother’s. Maybe the brother learned something about animal husbandry from the fact that it died. Maybe not.

What you would be teaching him is that it’s okay to steal because you don’t think he’s managing his possessions the way you would. Not a good lesson.

Oh oh… I sense a can of worms is escaping their confinement…

People do put rainbows in zoos – they are called art galleries. Rainbows are one of our greatest renewable resources.

Hobbes is such a wuss at times.

“and charge a dollar-and-a-half just to see ’em”

‘because they are males’… HUH? I think NOT – they come in both sexes! Ain’t just the males flying free out there!! Female buttterflies are sitting back in the kitchen waiting for the boys to turn up!

Zoos may be the only place where some species will survive. IF they don’t quit slaughtering African Elephants and Rhinos one day we might only be able to see one in the zoo.

You missed the point. It’s not about who owns what — it’s about (a) respect for another person and his or her world and (b) it’s not okay to behave improperly simply because you “feel” a greater good somehow exempts you from correct conduct towards others.

In Jacob’s original post, he says he tried to explain what the problem was with keeping the insect in the jar. That’s fine, but either his brother didn’t get it, or disagreed with that viewpoint. In any case, that’s about as far as Jacob could properly go in his treatment of his brother — unless there’s other info to which we’re not privy, such as their parents have invested Jacob with extra authority over his younger brother.

Idgi