This book is so completely amazing and truly awe-inspiring.The characters and the struggles they experience,it's the pai and pleasure of being alive.All the things I started thinking very late last night as I finished reading the book.
There is no such thing as Good and Evil:there is only Power and Empathy....the power to get what you want,do what you want,enforce your will,and no one can stop you or punish you;Empathy is knowing that the pain and pleasure that other people experience is exactly the same as your own,knowing that to hurt or help other people affects them the same way it would affect you.Knowing this,and allowing this understanding to change how you relate to other people,that is true Empathy.Maybe it's what we really mean by the word "Love".
I'm beginning to believe that the real conflict going on in America between Conservatives and Progressives is the conflict between these to apposing values...Power and Empathy.Especially when Glenn Beck condemns Empathy as being a quality of the Nazis,inspiring them to genocide!
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