> It's been awhile since I saw the film, but that's what I remember.

Slightly OT, but you might want to clarify that you are talking about a film rather than the classical story.

If you haven't had the pleasure of reading it, it might be worthwhile to check it out, the version I read as a child had a suprisingly morbid ending for a children's book.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henny_Penny

You don't have to see the film, it was a text fable for a couple thousand years before that. Plus, I'm skeptical that they all die at the end of a Disney movie version of the story.

And as with the Pied Piper, it’s the fault of bad management.

Only an asshole blames the chicken. You had a high sensitivity early warning device, and muted it because you couldn’t handle the false positive rate? That is not the fault of the device.

None of that is the fault of the chicken. The sky would’ve fallen on the idiots in charge anyway. They’re just trying to shift the blame. This is the true moral of that particular fable.

Also, don’t go around tempering children; “seen but not heard” is dark ages, Victorian values nightmare fuel.