“Like a bull in a china shop.”
We know the bull’s indiscriminately destructive, sometimes purposeful, but what’s often missing is that often the bull doesn’t care what it breaks. No matter how revered, inconsequential, reinforced with robust protections or an honor policy not to touch, it’s all the same to the bull. A thing.
And when the minders of the shop allow the destruction to continue, while the customers watch in horror? They’re complicit in the shop’s destruction.