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"It is, I suppose, at the heart of it a test of will. For as much as it costs you do act as you think is right, it will be doubly hard for you to resist doing so in the face of practicality. After all, morality is naught but a person's perception of justice, and that perception changes so markedly between individuals that it is, perhaps, not exactly the best compass in times like these. The question is, even when your head and heart are in sync, does that necessarily prove that they are correct? Or are they both wrong?"

"Do you have to turn everything into an object of philosophical scrutiny? Just shut up and get moving."

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A woman asks her son to come along with her to the supermarket one fine Sunday.

When they get there, she gets herself a trolley and begins her shopping. However, a mere two items into her list, she spots the unbelievably long queues at the payment counters. Not wanting to have to line up for hours when she has finished her shopping, she instructs her thirteen year old to take the two items from the trolley and get into line, effectively "booking" her a spot in the line.

Half an hour and a whole trolley-load of groceries later, she comes back to the counters and finds that the lines are just as long, but she doesn't bat an eyelid as her son is already in second place in his line. She quickly joins the queue at the point where her son is standing, his hands still clutching the two packets of cheese.

A man in line directly behind the boy starts grumbling and complaining, but she can't understand what he is so offended about. After all, there is no crime in joining her son, is there?

The angry man begs to differ. He has chosen this line in particular because he believed the boy only had two items to purchase and therefore would be done faster - and now his mother comes up with a whole trolley of stuff??

If you were to be appointed the judge for this "case", who would you find guilty?

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Singing (badly) along to: Younha's Houkiboshi