The Bonito and the Shark

A huge three-thousand pound great white shark goes to dinner with a three pound bonito (small tuna like fish) to break bread and partake in festivities and goodwill. After both of them enjoying a satisfying meal fit for a king, they start to chat.

"I don't like your kind." the bonito states to the shark. "I on the other hand love yours. You are tasty, you fit in my mouth quite nicely, and I can swallow you whole without any difficulty." replies the shark. "I wish your kind would cease to exist." the bonito replies. "I on the other hand don't want your kind to disappear, for you are easy quarry, much more so than porpoises and dolphins, and you taste better than they do." the shark replies. "You are a merciless killer. I on the other hand am meek and passive." the bonito says to the shark. "Passiveness and meekness do not for their sake bring." the shark replies. After a while, the shark becomes so angry that he swallows the bonito whole.

The following day, the shark is going about his business of eating, and realizes the bonito might still be alive, since he didn't masticate the fish, he just swallowed him whole! The shark goes and consults a human doctor. "Can thou remove the bonito from my stomach?" the shark asks. "I can, but if I do: thou might die, or if I crippled thee, thee would surely hit me with huge a law suit." replies the doctor.

The shark goes to another human doctor and asks again: "can thou operate on me? I don't know why, but I feel guilty about having swallowed this bonito, whom might still be alive." the doctor doesn't say anything, but rather starts to laugh so hard that he falls to the ground! "Are you crazy, you are a shark! You eat bonitos and small tunas, why is thee so grief-stricken over this episode?" the doctor asks. The shark is so embarrassed that he decides to just leave this doctor's office.

On the third day, the shark consults a third human doctor and asks again: "can thou operate on me?" The doctor is so impressed with this shark's ethics that he decides to operate on him. After the operation, the bonito is saved, and both the bonito and the shark become lifelong friends!

Many years pass, and the doctor who operated on the shark invites him home to have dinner with him one day, and asks: "how is it that thou, the terror of the seas, most formidable predator/killer known to mankind, and most merciless killing machine of all the oceans have cared for the life of this bonito, of whom thou eats anyways?" the doctor asks, and the shark replies: "ah, but unlike thou, a shark doesn't always have to be a shark, but mankind is always human...."

I'm not laughing at God, but rather at Nietzsche!