StarvingChildren

Worst version of the "children are starving" reasoning EVER: Opal is running a bath and standing on the edge of the tub, trying to reach the sponge on the window sill. I advise her to stop. "But I need the sponge!" "You have the washcloth and the purple scrubby thing." "But I need the sponge to build something." "What?" "I need the sponge to build something up high for the water to fall on. So it will make the right noise." "The right noise?" "If it just falls it goes plop, like a pumpkin smashing, and you shouldn't waste food. People throw pumpkins, you know. They have contests at Halloween. And it makes that kind of noise. They're wasting food, and people in Haiti have to eat mud! Mud pies, mud cookies, mud cake, nothing but mud to eat in Haiti! You may think it's a good noise, but to me, to me it is a terrible noise!" "So you need a sponge because of Haiti?" Long pause, as Opal mentally tests her rhetorical structure. Apparently she finds it shaky, because rather than defending it, she changes tactics. "You should be glad to have a solid house, you know. In Haiti they have roofs that leak, and nothing but banana leaves for umbrellas."