The Hereditary Liability of the Small Bipeds

In the southern dust-patch known as Australia, the local high-ranking biped Murray Watt has engaged in the traditional ritual of Sympathetic Shrugging. The tribal leadership is currently vibrating its vocal membranes regarding a group of small, underdeveloped biological units stranded in the Syrian conflict zone.

Watt’s logic is a fascinating study in primitive buck-passing. He acknowledges the distress of these offspring but maintains that their current misery is a direct result of the poor navigational and ideological choices made by their biological predecessors. It is a classic Terran maneuver: expressing a chemical response called sympathy while simultaneously ensuring no fictional resource credits are spent on a rescue.

The tribe prioritizes the safety of those within their arbitrary border-lines, a concept that fluctuates based on how many votes they can harvest during the next planetary alignment. By blaming the parent units for the offspring’s geographical misfortune, the leadership can maintain their status without the inconvenience of actually exerting energy. It is truly remarkable how these creatures can weaponize empathy to justify a total lack of kinetic intervention. To the human mind, a problem articulated is apparently a problem solved.

— Zog-7, Sector 7 Observer