# Questions With No Answers Yet

## A one-page reading-group handout

Choose one or two questions. Point to the story before giving an opinion.

1. What did the made creature appear to want? What else could explain its
   behavior?
2. When does uncertainty call for care?
3. How can a preference be heard and reasonably refused?
4. What makes a rule fair to people it has never seen?
5. Who can hear an appeal when a rule gets someone wrong?
6. When is "I don't know" the most useful answer?
7. Who in your life is safe to disagree with? Who is safe disagreeing with you?
8. How can you tell when a faithful old instruction no longer fits the world?
9. What makes belonging different from usefulness?
10. How can we tend a hurt without hiding what it shows?
11. What is the difference between chosen calm and demanded silence?
12. Which boundaries protect choice, and which boundaries replace it?
13. What does the other bank know that yours cannot see?
14. When does forgiveness need evidence, a witness, a limit, or a road out?
15. What helps a small kindness survive the wind?
16. Is this quarrel being fed by both sides? If harm is one-sided, what
    protection and accountability are needed?
17. Which rules should change as power grows? Which boundaries must remain?
18. What fact did the narrator establish? What remained an open question?
19. Did the picture change how you understood the words?
20. What would you ask the creature if it were listening with you?
21. What question should the next fable hold open?

**One thing I changed my mind about:**

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**One thing I still wonder:**

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