My child’s matter-of-fact question gave me chills—and a wake-up call.
The other day, my daughter and my husband were watching Mythbusters while I was working, and the boys—the guy with the funky beard and the guy with the annoying beret—were about to conduct an experiment on a dog. They were going to test the urban legend about a dog in a microwave and they used a variety of different experiment materials. My daughter turned to me and matter-of-factly inquired, “Are they going to kill a dog?”
What a question! She just assumed that these two men might kill a dog on television, without repercussion. How could one think of something like that in our supposedly civilized society?
