Then the Dog King Silver came out from under the throne and faced the mighty King of Benares. He bowed respectfully and asked, Your majesty, was it you who ordered that all the dogs of the city should be killed? It was I, replied the king. What crime did the dogs commit? asked the dog king. Dogs ate my rich beautiful chariot leather and straps. Do you know which dogs did this? asked King Silver. No one knows, said the King of Benares.
My lord, said the dog, for a king such as you, who wishes to be righteous, is it right to have all dogs killed in the place of the few guilty ones? Does this do justice to the innocent ones? The king replied, as if it made perfect sense to him, Since I do not know which dogs destroyed my leather, only by ordering the killing of all dogs can I be sure of punishing the guilty. The king must have justice!
The Dog King Silver paused for a moment, before challenging the king with the crucial question My lord king, is it a fact that you have ordered all dogs to be killed, or are there some who are not to be killed? The king suddenly became a little uneasy as he was forced to admit, before his whole court, It is true that most dogs are to be killed, but not all. The fine pure-breeds of my palace are to be spared.
Then the dog king said, My lord, before you said that all dogs were to be killed, in order to insure that the guilty would be punished. Now you say that your own palace dogs are to be spared. This shows that you have gone wrong in the way of prejudice. For a king who wishes to be righteous, it is wrong to favor some over others. The kings justice must be unbiased, like an honest scale. Although you have decreed an impartial death to all dogs, in fact this is only the slaughter of poor dogs. Your rich palace dogs are unjustly saved, while the poor are wrongly killed!
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