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Wronging the Ignorant and the Dumb

Tony Skillen on the mistreatment of animals and humans.

Aunt Elizabeth has given your stepfather £40 to take your stepsister and you to London for a meal and a show. Unbeknown to you, he conspires with your stepsister to keep the thing secret from you and to take your stepsister’s classmate instead. You never find out.

Now I’ve blown the secret and contradicted myself by telling you, but suppose you never had found out. You didn’t miss what you missed out on; you had a reasonably pleasant day, in fact, even enjoying the thought that your stepsister had to go on a dreary school outing.

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