Imagine you are trying to show how amazing your holiday in Scotland was. After everyone is suitably wowed by the beauty of the Highlands, you then take out last year's pictures...of you in the Himalayas. Still impressed by Ben Nevis? I think not. So what is the Haggadah doing by implying that Lavan is worse than Pharaoh, which is supposed to be the point of the story.

Isn't it?