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So, we see that inheritance, yet, of violence, continuing.
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So, what appears to be a parable, what's told to the group of men
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by the judge in the form of a parable-- invoking the parables of the Bible
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which have spiritual, moral lessons to them or can
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have spiritual, moral lessons to them--
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that discourse is not, in the end, a discourse that will
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divide killers of men from people who are not the killers of men.
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It does not help us to divide up the world between evil and good.
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It does not track along those lines that the judge's story about the kid,
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that the kid is his nemesis, that the kid is the counterforce to
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his evil.
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It does not track along those lines, and in fact, the whole novel renders