The Air We Breathe

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by Andrea Barrett

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I guess I'm pretty dense, but who was the "we" that told the story?
Caterina It's the collective group of almost all the patients and staff at the state sanitarium, especially the way they acted as a group, sometimes in a good …moreIt's the collective group of almost all the patients and staff at the state sanitarium, especially the way they acted as a group, sometimes in a good way, but also in a more ethically questionable way, when, in a certain sense, they created a scapegoat (though that word or concept was never explicitly used) rather than treating others fairly and evenhandedly, to avoid examining their own complicity and taking responsibility for their own parts in the difficulties they faced. (less)
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