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* Zero in ''[[Beetle Bailey]]'' lives this trope. Usually.
== [[Oral Tradition]], [[Folklore]],
* [[Older Than Feudalism]], from ''[[The Bible]]'':
** It is a common theme for a prophet to accuse religious leaders of doing this because they were more interested in being [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]]s than in being [[Good Shepherd]]s.
{{quote|'''Micah 6:7-8:''' ''Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, [or] with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn [for] my transgression, the fruit of my body [for] the sin of my soul? He hath shewed thee, O man, what [is] good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? ''}}
:* Samuel does this in a big way when Saul spares some of the Amalekites and their livestock (which God had previously ordered completely destroyed for their crimes against the Hebrews during the Exodus). Saul says, more or less "[[The Cartoon History of the Universe|I offered the usual sacrifices]]," and then Samuel more or less flies at him:
{{quote|'''1 Samuel 15:22'''
::: Samuel then went to the Amalekite king Agag and "hewed him in pieces," saying (implicitly), "''this'' is the point, you idiot! Just ''why'' did I ever make you king?"
:* Jesus said it very well when speaking of the Pharisees who forgot the meaning of the law was to show mercy and faith in Matthew 23:24 'Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.'
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