1. If we do it, it's okay. If someone else does it, it gives us another

excuse to do it.


2. Torture broadens one's horizons and makes one more aware of

how much more comfortable one was before one was made aware of

how much more comfortable one was before.


3. If someone is doing something horrible to you for your "own

good", then why don't they do it to themselves so that they will

feel much better about themselves without you being involved at

all.


4. Military organizations who humiliate their own people and then

get upset when they go and do likewise are just jealous that they

didn't get to play.


5. Political organizations who humiliate their own constituents

and then get upset when another organization tries to do the

same thing to them are just jealous that they didn't think of it

first.


6. Sexual harassment begins with each sex humiliating itself

when they were too young to realize that the elders they are

emulating should have been immolated instead.


7. The fashion industry makes it's living out of "lotus foot"ing

it's customers.


8. Popular music fashions systematically desensitize their

adherents so that the next "big" thing will slide in that

much more easily without lubricant.


9. The Bookselling business wants you to follow the lists so

that they can reliably predict which warehouses will be freed

up for next year's crop.


10. The movie industry has figured out that most of you lot

will be going to the cinema to watch something, anything,

regardless of quality. So they put as much something and anything

up on the screen as the market can bear. Every time you pay to

watch something you think you are gonna like, it helps finance

the film that you wouldn't watch with a ten foot welshman.


11. Automobile registration and licenses, as well as waiting in
labyrinthan queues to renew them, are a long-term scientific

experiment in animal behavior that is being performed on humans

because they can't teach mice to drive or to sit behind counters

all day waiting on each other to come up with the next lame excuse

for why they are a month behind.