Quote of the day

`Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'
- Alice in Wonderland

While we are on the subject of cartoon quotes, this remarkable one has quite some content to it.
As far as I'm concerned, Alice in Wonderland is the best cartoon Disney has ever produced. It's unconventional style, story and color palette appeal to me.

Let's have a look at what is in the quote. "We're all mad here", that might refer to beings in Wonderland, but I think this can perfectly apply to our world too, and was probably even the 'hidden message' . When you think about it, how could one person determine if another person was mad? Because the other person might think likewise! So who is mad?
The same goes for the concept of right and wrong. Right or wrong is totally dependent on time, space and several other factors. Thousands of years ago people would think it was right to crucify "bad people". I don't think anyone in his right mind still thinks this way. In fact my personal opinion is that you should not kill anyone for what (s)he has done, who are we to judge? Who are we to decide over another man's life?
A similar example can be given about the space factor. While in some countries it is considered right to marry someone off, this is not the case in a whole lot of other places around the world.

In the end, what it all boils down to: Everything is relative.