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β | {{w|Sticks and Stones (nursery rhyme)|Sticks and Stones}} is a nursery rhyme, | + | {{w|Sticks and Stones (nursery rhyme)|Sticks and Stones}} is a nursery rhyme, which goes as follows: |
<blockquote>Sticks and stones may break my bones<br> | <blockquote>Sticks and stones may break my bones<br> | ||
But words will never hurt me.</blockquote> | But words will never hurt me.</blockquote> | ||
β | The rhyme | + | The nursery rhyme often by parents and with some variation, to persuade an individual, usually a child, to ignore any name calling or mean taunts that were said by others in an attempt to hurt the individual's feelings. |
The comic challenges this sentiment when the child responds that, although words can't harm you physically, they can change how you feel, and he considers that to be "the only thing that really matters in this stupid world." [[Cueball]] replies optimistically, by claiming that the world really isn't that bad. The child refers again to the rhyme, observing that the physical world can be harsh, because there are things like sticks and stones that break your bones and presumably people who use them as weapons to do so. Or yet worse, that someone would think up such a gruesome saying in the first place. Upon reflection, Cueball agrees that this image is actually horrific. | The comic challenges this sentiment when the child responds that, although words can't harm you physically, they can change how you feel, and he considers that to be "the only thing that really matters in this stupid world." [[Cueball]] replies optimistically, by claiming that the world really isn't that bad. The child refers again to the rhyme, observing that the physical world can be harsh, because there are things like sticks and stones that break your bones and presumably people who use them as weapons to do so. Or yet worse, that someone would think up such a gruesome saying in the first place. Upon reflection, Cueball agrees that this image is actually horrific. |