Then, is it about doing the right thing? Or is it just about punishing yourself? Because Sister, believe me, I've asked myself why I'm here and they're not, and I don't know why any universe would create a situation in which that was allowed to happen.
But let me ask you, Sister, what are you going to do when you graduate? Are you going to choose a-- a global atrocity which was being committed at the time of your death and go and attempt to fix it? Or do you not have the same kind of personal responsibility because you weren't born into it, or raised to believe in it? And if you don't go back, to fight against something that will probably kill you, if, instead, you decide to go on and do something else with your life? Then is that still Genovese Syndrome?
Because Sister, I have to say, it seems really really easy for people to expect all of this about someone else. Someone who none of them even cared about.
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Date: 2012-01-07 04:35 pm (UTC)But let me ask you, Sister, what are you going to do when you graduate? Are you going to choose a-- a global atrocity which was being committed at the time of your death and go and attempt to fix it? Or do you not have the same kind of personal responsibility because you weren't born into it, or raised to believe in it? And if you don't go back, to fight against something that will probably kill you, if, instead, you decide to go on and do something else with your life? Then is that still Genovese Syndrome?
Because Sister, I have to say, it seems really really easy for people to expect all of this about someone else. Someone who none of them even cared about.