Story time............................

                The Philosopher, the Ants, and Mercury

A philosopher witnessed from the shore a shipwreck of a vessel, of which the crew and passengers were all drowned.  He inveighed against the injustice of Providence, which would for the sake of one criminal perchance sailing in the ship allow so may innocent persons to perish.  As he was indulging in these reflections, he found himself surrounded by a whole army of Ants.  One of them climbed up and stung him, and he immediately trampled them all to death with his foot.  Mercury presented himself, and striking the Philosopher with his wand, said, "And are you indeed to make yourself a judge of the dealings of Providence, who hast himself in a similar manner treated these poor Ants?"

-as transcribed from Aesop's Fables