I agree with Brian, in fact I was going to say a few of the same things. The question is very vague and has a lot of implications that it wants to read to make. All I am going to say about the term ‘worse’ is that it is too vague. The term ‘accident’ implies that the child was doing something they were allowed to do or even something good. The child could be doing something wrong, that was not directly connected to the glasses that caused them to break. The child ‘reaching for a jar while his parents aren’t home’ has two major problems for me. It implies that the child shouldn’t have been reaching for the jar in the first place. The child could have been allowed to reach for the jar before. Also, why aren’t the parents at home? If the child is too small to reach for a jar on the counter or self, they should not be home alone. I know I am just a weekend mom right now but when Riley is around we always have one eye on her. We don’t leave her alone unless she is in her play pin. The question also doesn’t state if the child was hurt or not. That is the first thing I would need to know to determine, which is worse; the incident where the child got hurt would be worse. If the child was not hurt in either case, then the case where the child was doing something they were told not to do would be worse, as the second situation suggests. Not because of the number of glasses broken, but because the child was breaking a rule. However, my final answer will be the second situation because the parents were not at home and the child should have supervision, not because of the broken glass and not because they were possibly doing something wrong.

The rabbits in Australia create an interesting problem. The environmentalist in me wants to see the natural balance of the ecosystem restored, which means the bunnies have to go. The animal lover in me doesn’t want to see them treated poorly. I have heard before that people (I’m not sure of their position anymore) would round up a bunch of rabbits on a fence either by horses or helicopters and set them all on fire. Methods like that and introducing viruses into the population are too cruel for my standards. I don’t have an answer on what to do about them. I don’t think introducing a predator would be a good idea. It would just upset the ecosystem more. I liked Sarah Mae’s idea about introducing bunny birth control. I think it would help. They could set it out like they do the poison. It wouldn’t harm the rabbits and it would help slow the population.

I like the idea of using the giant rabbits for food in poor countries. The rabbits breed fast (60 babies a year) and have a good amount of meat on them. But they would have to be careful that the giant rabbits didn’t get lose because then they would face the same type of problem as Australia.