Characters
Without rules, we all might as well be up in a tree flinging our crap at each other.
— Red Forman · That '70s Show
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker defends rules by comparing life without them to animals hurling filth from a tree. The crude image makes his point vividly: structure is what separates civilised behaviour from chaos. It is gruff, comic and unapologetic in insisting that limits keep people decent.
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