Today's lesson: soldiers are very kind to us; they're very mean to the bad people. I have no idea where 4yodd got the notion that soldiers are bad people; if I find out I'll expurgate that source completely. She says she saw bad soldiers in Africa when she was two years old, but I kinda doubt that - she hasn't been east of North Carolina :-) Transcribed just now as we discussed the situation:
"What else do you know about soldiers?"
"Well, they could tie the bad people who fight us into ropes, then they could not fight us. That's a good one. They could give us all the food they want us to have. They don't fight us and they would give us all they want us to have."
Rationing? We haven't discussed the war or ready.gov stuff, so I don't know where she's coming up with the food ideas.
"Daddy, why are the soldiers nice to us and bad to the bad people fighting us?"
"Because they love us."
"What happens if there were lots of soldiers here?"
"We would give them some nice hot meals, and we would tell them funny stories, and we would play games with them."
"Do soldiers have houses in their states?"
"Yes, because they're people just like us. Some of them have little girls just like you - they're daddies."
"Are some soldiers girls?"
"Yes."
"Then if they were big and a girl soldier, she would be a mommy soldier. Do soldiers sleep at night or sleep at day?"
"They like to sleep at night, but sometimes they have to be up all night."
"Does that make them tired?"
"It sure does. Sometimes they get very tired."
Posted by billw at March 3, 2003 04:13 PMMetaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct, but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.
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