A hand in the sweet jar
Thomas did it. Thomas has graduated from virtue yesterday to vice today, having been caught stealing sweets from a jar on the teacher’s desk. These are meant to be a reward for pupils who have done good work.[ 1 ] Mr Bollard wonders what’d happen if everyone helped themselves. Thomas argues (clumsily) that if anyone is hungry, tired and normally responsible, and [because] there are lots of sweeties, then it’d be all right for everyone to help themselves. Mr Bollard is about to clout the little bugger with a blackboard duster, but wonders whether he has a point. Mrs Cook the dinner lady says that what Thomas did was wrong because the sweet didn’t belong to him and he was naughty because he stole it. But Thomas is undaunted and enlists Anarchists. He wants to know why his action was wrong, not just to be told it was wrong. Mr Bollard is a bit dim, methinks, unless he understands something about Thomas’s original argument that I don’t. For a start, sweets don’t satisfy anyone’s hunger, al...