Imagine yourself as the parent of a willful, destructive child who lives to break things. Every rattle -- split. Every cup -- cracked. Every toy -- destroyed. Every stuffed animal -- ripped to shreds. All of this behavior is punctuated by continued whining and crying when objects presented to him somehow don't work any more.
Why then, on God's green earth, would any parent give the child a priceless vase, knowing it will be reduced to shards in a few moment's...
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