Blow Up

"A child who burns ants to death with a magnifying glass simply for amusement may be called deranged. Substitute humans for the ants, and the child would be called god"-- Lindsey Brown

The image magnifies the idea of fun from malevolence to what is perceived to be having or being less.

First, my take on having fun for a wrong reason defines you as a person. A child being amused by killing is nasty. Killing a helpless ant is totally cruel. A parent that takes pride in the killing of a helpless ant is neither fabulous nor fun. It is insane.

Second, ant maybe helpless,less, for that matter, alone but its strength lies when with others. Ants can be envied for having fun and being productive with other ants but human find ways to CREATE his own amusement.

  

Being nasty to the ant that was deviated from the rest can be fun to a child because he doesn't know any better. And worse, fun derived from making the ant miserable denies one from being a better person. The fulfillment is not derived from intended fun but from "because I/we can" pun.


That third reason is my way of elaborating this:

Why?

The idea of having fun for the sake of it must be magnified. The fun derived from irritating others by showing off and be looked up to is an insane amusement.  


Human evolved from ant's social behavior. The fact that humans can do more than what ants can proves human can be better than bully an ant. 

I can be that child. But I grow up and magnify ideas instead.