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That's a little callous, no (even if it is a fictional character)? Imagine if everything you worked for over the last 5 year dried up, and you had for some reas
by pbiggar 14y ago
That's a little callous, no (even if it is a fictional character)? Imagine if everything you worked for over the last 5 year dried up, and you had for some reason to go back to life as a salaryman. Not the end of the world probably, but you'd be pretty depressed.
The lack of empathy in this thread bothers me.
- rmc 14y agoNow imagine everything dries up, and there is nothing to go back to. No possibility of a job to fall back on.
- pbiggar 14y agoNow imagine they killed our families and razed our crops and burned our villages - leaving desolation and famine in their wake! We can imagine any kind of nightmarish scenario we like, but that doesn't mean we should ignore all the people who are doing better. Imagine if our social policy was to only help people who had escaped war-torn famine, and tell everyone else to suck it up! So the protagonist in the story could be in a much worse place, but it still sucks for him. You have to be pretty callous not to have some empathy for him.