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How to Find Real Life in Stories with George Saunders

The One You Feed

CHAPTER

You're Not Any Less Than the Bear

In a similar part, very near there in the book, as these people are lamenting all the things that they did in life and how they couldn't have done differently. That made me then think of a conversation I had with a gentleman recently. He makes this distinction that punishment doesn't really make sense given if you take their history into account but you also have to stop them. And I love that sort of it's kind of like you and the bear, right? Like there's no sense getting mad at the bear. Nonetheless, you got to get the bear off your neck.

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