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Doing a bad thing doesn’t make you a bad person, Lucy had said, more than once. It was comforting, but at some point, it must cease to be true. There must be a certain threshold of bad things that did in fact reflect on your character. It’s just that no one was really qualified to make that call.
They think empathy is a limited resource, that they have to hoard it, only give it to those who need it the most—it’s not. It’s a muscle. You have to exercise it.”
“There is no such thing as justice. It’s an idea that makes people feel better, that’s all. There is only revenge, or mercy. And you can’t have both.”
