BlogSchmog | We live as if the world were as it should be, to show it what it can be.

Some of the best times to talk to Carter are right as he’s falling asleep, or just as he’s waking up. He’s too tired to run off half-way through the sentences. Last night as he was dozing off we had this exchange:

Carter: Do you think humans are the most powerful race?

Me: Hmmm?

Carter: Ben says they are, I’m not sure-

Me: In what context?

Carter: It started because we were talking about trees, and I said, “trees should really be able to get up, walk across the yard and carve their initials on humans’ stomachs.”
Then Ben said “Humans are the most powerful race and they have a responsibility to be the most powerful race, more powerful than trees, so they have a right to carve on them if they want.”

Me: What do you think?

Carter: I think humans might be the most powerful race, but it doesn’t mean they have to be the most destructive and dangerous.

With that, my heart melted and I fell asleep.