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To my mind, the bystanders are by far the more guilty ones in that situation. Fine, brother-in-law ought to be punished in some suitable way (Say, turned into an 80-pound asian lesbian polo survivor with acne and a bad lisp and dropped into a small-town Alabama junior high school for a year...) but he's an outsider. He's violating his general obligation to act human, but he doesn't have a specific obligation to be decent to this particular child. The bystanders, on the other hand, are her FAMILY. It's their job to teach her how to live in the world. Blaming her for someone else's bad behavior is not on the to-do list for them, eh? He should have been out of that house so fast he left his testicles in the chair (assuming he ever had any).
Dec 21, 2005, 10:42:00 AM
Posted to Frost