But in a scene that felt more Office Space than Black Hawk Down, he rose after a moment, stuck his rifle around the corner and fired blindly at an enemy unseen.
That seems to be the real warning to parents here, that an interest in current affairs will drain your child of joy and lead them blindly into a life of conservativism.
And it certainly isn't positioning monogamous people as more blindly traditional or less emotionally evolved than you.
"The community will be shocked to hear that our government is blindly relying on port developers' claims and letting them dump dredge spoil offshore in the reef's waters".
"We didn't go into it blindly," says the charity's founder and chief Kris Hallenga of the association.
When Murphy knew the game was up for his leadership of Scottish Labour, his bizarre and injudicious outburst against Len McCluskey, general secretary of the Unite union, was indicative of a party that has lost its way and has begun tilting blindly at the wrong enemies.
This blindly defiant stance – that the only thing worse than being tweeted about is not being tweeted about – comes to mind this week with Miley Cyrus's Twitter address to her "Smilers", in which she declared: "My VMA performance had 306,000 tweets per minute.
It does upset me when people blindly repost pictures of mistreated animals supposedly undergoing animal testing.
"However, it is an unfortunate reality that building union officials often hide behind employee conduct and the actions of the FWBC will bring home to workers the consequences of blindly following union demands," said Richard Calver, acting chief executive of Master Builders.
The statistics are clear – we can't keep blindly assuming that every new sexual partner is clean.
"We need to stop believing blindly in the governors of the eurozone and start preparing plan B, a return to the Slovak crown".
