Ponto de vista

"- lf a rat were to scamper through your front door, right now, would you greet it with hostility?

- l suppose l would.

- Has a rat ever done anything to you to create this animosity you feel toward them?

- Rats spread disease. They bite people.

- Rats were the cause of the bubonic plague, but that's some time ago. l propose to you any disease a rat could spread, a squirrel could equally carry. Would you agree?
Yet, l assume you don't share the same animosity with squirrels that you do with rats, do you?

- No.

- Yet, they're both rodents, are they not? And except for the tail, they even rather look alike, don't they?

- lt's an interesting thought, Herr Colonel.

- However interesting as the thought may be, it makes not one bit of difference to how you feel.

- lf a rat were to walk in here, right now, as l'm talking would you greet it with a saucer of your delicious milk?

- Probably not.

- l didn't think so. You don't like them. You don't really know why you don't like them. All you know is you find them repulsive."

Hans Landa and monsieur LaPadite