Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for October 22, 2015
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Another kid falls into the gorilla cage. -a parable_ Look! that small child fell unto the gorilla cage! Wow! She's gently handling the child to the zoo keeper! She's acting almost human! What?! Through hunting and deforestation , humans have pushed my species to the edge of extinction! You humans locked me up i this cage for life! Then one of your kind falls into my cage an dI show some compassion -- and you call it human?! Id say that kindness should be called inhuman! I like that monkey its funny! Hey lets throw something at it!
Daniel Quinn’s book Ishmael is an excellent take on this whole question.