Posted by Eugene Volokh:
The Parable of the Boiling Frog, Taken Too Far:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_03_08-2009_03_14.shtml#1236723509
From a recent divorce case, in which the father's actions were
apparently held against him in deciding child custody:
[Father] conceded that the children were very upset when he
performed a science experiment to demonstrate that a frog would
remain in a pot of slowly heated and then boiling water until it
died.
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