Better Cities:Someone Else's Problem

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Someone Else's Problem
ID xx0982E2
Value 25 Weight 1.0
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Found in the following locations:
  • Sold by book merchants and found in random containers as loot.
Someone Else's Problem
A lesson about empathy.


One day a mouse noticed that the owner of the farm had set up mousetraps. She told a chicken, a sheep and a cow about this. But they all answered: "The mousetraps are your problem, it has nothing to do with us!"

A little later, a snake fell into a mousetrap and bit the farmer's wife. Trying to cure her, they made chicken soup for his wife. Then they slaughtered the sheep to feed everyone who came to visit the sick woman. And finally, they slaughtered a cow to adequately feed the guests at the funeral.

And all this time, the mouse watched what was happening through a hole in the wall and thought about things that had nothing to do with anyone!