"Why do we pardon Turkeys at Thanksgiving? Shouldn't we be thankful for turkeys?"
She necessarily raises the question of what holiday is appropriate for pardoning. Yom Kippur I suppose, although Yom Kippur has nothing to do with turkeys. Unless, of course, the turkey is oneself.
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We pardon turkeys to show that we are a kindly, empathetic, forgiving nation – even though we pepper spray students who are not a physical threat and send innocent people to their executions, and tax the poor to support the rich, and lie like hell in our advertising and have a growing population of citizens living near impoverishment and...oh the hell with it.
Yours very crankily,
The New York Crank
It's inverse scapegoating. Our High Priest -- er, President - periodically bestows the blessings of liberty on one randomly chosen beast while the rest of the animals in his category die for our gluttinous sins.
So. Religious tradition.
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