“If you lived on a farm you’d know the reason why.”
“What is it?”
“They kill the crops.”
“So we kill them because they affect our pockets. Is that it?”
“I guess it is.”
“Then it isn’t wrong to kill things that take what we want. It’s only wrong to kill what doesn’t interfere with our plans.”
“Have it your own way,” said Dan, somewhat puzzled by his friend’s apparent seriousness. “My conscience doesn’t trouble me when I kill the grasshoppers and——”
“And yet the grasshopper is a wonderful creature. He makes his music with his hind legs.”
“Who told you that?” sniffed Dan scornfully.