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[musage]

It's about the fate of the letters, not the cat. At the end, non-conforming letters get made just so they can get exterminated. Great.

[JumpCrisscross → musage]

> At the end, non-conforming letters get made just so they can get exterminated

You’re overprojecting. They’re inanimate letters. The children are learning penmanship. In the end, out of compassion for the cat that was previously plaguing them, they bend the rules to be nice. It’s certainly cuter than the German fairy tales I was raised on.

[musage → JumpCrisscross]

> They’re inanimate letters.

Cats don't actually starve when they don't get to eat those.

And why only say that now? What does the "compassion for the cat" have to do with it it either way?

What German fairy tales about non-conformist things being destroyed were you raised on? And did your learning of penmanship involve any of that?

And they don't even bend the (part of the) rules (under discussion here), non-conforming letters still get eaten.

[s_trumpet → musage]

>What German fairy tales about non-conformist things being destroyed were you raised on?

Not fairy tales but media for children in general: Pinocchio and Thomas the Tank Engine.