Thursday, March 06, 2025

The last refuge of a scoundrel

1: I love my Dad.

2: I love my Dad because he is my Dad.

3: I love my Dad because I feel that he is the best Dad.

4: I love my Dad because he is objectively the best Dad.

5: My Dad is objectively the best Dad and I will fight anyone who says he isn’t.

6: My Dad is objectively the best Dad and he should be allowed to forcibly adopt all the other children in the whole world.



1: I love my Dad

2: I love my Dad because he was a great Dad

3: I love my Dad because, even though he was not always a great Dad, he is still my Dad.

3:I love my Dad because, although he was not always there for me when I was a kid, sometimes cheated on my Mum, and one time got mad and hit me, he is nevertheless my Dad

4: I do not love my Dad, because he was not always there for me when I was a kid, cheated on my Mum and one time got mad and hit me. But he is still my Dad.

5: My Dad sometimes cheated on my mum and hit me, but he also bought me better presents than he could afford and took me to drive-in-movies and baseball matches. Like most people, he sometimes got it right and sometimes got it wrong. I love the person he actually was, not an idealised version of him.

6: My Dad is objectively the best Dad and therefore the not being there, cheating, and hitting are objectively good things and I will fight anyone who says they aren’t.



1: I love my Dad

2: I would like my Dad to have the best pension, the best medical care and the most luxurious rest home.

3: If it came to a straight choice, I would give my Dad the best medical care, the best pension and the most luxurious rest home at the expense of your Dad, because he is my Dad and yours isn’t.

4: My Dad objectively deserves the best pension, the best medical care and the most luxurious rest home because he is objectively the best Dad in the world.

5: I want your Dad to have a worse pension, a worse doctor, and a worse retirement flat than mine, because he is an objectively worse Dad than mine, and because any nice things he gets are by definition nice things my Dad isn’t getting.

6: I want my Dad to have nice things because he is my Dad; you probably want your Dad to have nice things because he is your Dad. The best way to decide who gets the nice things is for me to fight you for them, and for the weak to go to the wall.

7: I want my Dad to have nice things because he is my Dad. You probably want your Dad to have nice things because he is your Dad. So it follows that we should arrange things so all Dads get nice things, by some kind of, I don’t know, sharing.

8: If that means my Dad gets slightly fewer nice things so your Dad can have slightly more nice things, then that is fair enough: one of the reasons I think my Dad is the best Dad is that he brought me up to believe in sharing.

9: If there really aren’t enough things to go around — if it is really impossible for all Dads to have nice things — then we are obviously running the country in the wrong way, and all the working folk should get together, take the money that the rich are hoarding, and use it to pay for pensions, doctors, retirement homes, etc.

1 comment:

  1. if there really isn’t enough food to go around — if it really is impossible for all to eat — then we are obviously running the country in the wrong way, and all the serfs should get together, take the land the kulaks are hoarding, divide it up among the collective farms, and use it to produce bounteous harvests for everyone. What could possibly go wrong?

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