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Once, there were two rats that lived in a terrarium in an apartment.
One of the rats was supposed to have been fed to a boa constrictor, but that's another story.
Anyway, these two rats lived very happily, feeding on sunflower seeds, jumping from couches to tables, and occasionally being placed headfirst into the mouth of a man named Tim. But that, too, is another story.
These two rats loved to explore the apartment they were in, and food was plentiful there, but they were often faced with strange new things they had to puzzle out. For example, one day, the two rats came upon a tube filled with a wonderful coconutty liquid. Since it wasn't a sunflower seed, it wasn't any food they'd ever been given before. But it sure smelled nifty.
One rat twitched her whiskers at the other.
The other rat twitched her whiskers back.
At this point, one could anthropomorphize the rats and try to claim that they were experiencing a moral dilemma, something about respecting the personal property of others, or whatever. But since rats have brains that are about as big as your average booger, the concepts of morality or even common sense are completely alien to them. So the first rat decided to chew open the container and drink the luscious fluid inside.
And that she did. But the tube contained suntan lotion, so she died.
The other rat didn't eat the lotion. She lived much longer.
One of the rats was supposed to have been fed to a boa constrictor, but that's another story.
Anyway, these two rats lived very happily, feeding on sunflower seeds, jumping from couches to tables, and occasionally being placed headfirst into the mouth of a man named Tim. But that, too, is another story.
These two rats loved to explore the apartment they were in, and food was plentiful there, but they were often faced with strange new things they had to puzzle out. For example, one day, the two rats came upon a tube filled with a wonderful coconutty liquid. Since it wasn't a sunflower seed, it wasn't any food they'd ever been given before. But it sure smelled nifty.
One rat twitched her whiskers at the other.
The other rat twitched her whiskers back.
At this point, one could anthropomorphize the rats and try to claim that they were experiencing a moral dilemma, something about respecting the personal property of others, or whatever. But since rats have brains that are about as big as your average booger, the concepts of morality or even common sense are completely alien to them. So the first rat decided to chew open the container and drink the luscious fluid inside.
And that she did. But the tube contained suntan lotion, so she died.
The other rat didn't eat the lotion. She lived much longer.
