Episode 8: Moral Dilemmas

Terrastina finds a praying mantis on the face of a kitchen drawer, perched like a green handle. She calls to the twins. They run into the kitchen, then stand very still when they see the mantis. What is it? they whisper. It’s a bug that eats other bugs, says Terrastina. The twins each pet the wings. Careful, says Terrastina, I’m going to put it out in the garden. It’ll get rid of the bugs that eat up our vegetables. The twins look puzzled. Is it okay, they say, to doom all those other bugs just because they are vegetarians?