Moe was the only character in the strip who uses lower case letters to speak. In the words of Watterson, he represents every jerk he ever knew. In the above strips, Watterson wonders over how apathetic some people sometimes can be and how insensitive their behavior can be. I share this outlook in the sense that I do not understand why courage is weighed in the currency of brawn and brashness in this society and why aggressiveness is seen as manly and macho.
