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Freud explained narcissism as a failure to grow up. All infants are narcissists, he pointed out, but as we grow, we ought to learn that other people have lives independent of our own. It's not their job to please us, applaud for us or even notice us--let alone die because we're unhappy...
...extension, in all our minds. What is it that makes individual members of a usually empathetic species turn rogue? How does one of our most primal faculties - the ability to understand that things that cause me pain or fear would do the same to you and that I therefore ought not do them - get so completely shut down? Is empathy optional, at least in some people, and if so, how does that emotional decoupling take place? More important, if we can figure out that part of the question, can we figure out how to prevent such things from happening...
...Sexual violence is a serious issue and a matter of which we all ought to be aware. Yet to allow its gravity to be diluted by exaggeration is to take away from the seriousness of the situations in which violation has truly occurred. Overstating the prevalence of the rape problem is offensive for the true victims and sets a dangerous precedent within society...
...didn't know him," said the student. "He was quiet." But a roommate who had known Cho in high school in Chantilly suggested during their sophomore year that they ought to try to bring Cho out of his funk. "We'd try to talk to him. but he'd barely respond. So one day my roommate challenged himself to get him to talk to us. We told him a joke." Cho did laugh that day, according to the student...
There were a (scanty) few lapses in the production’s overall energy. The scenes set in Undine’s parents’ apartment ought to have been fraught with tension or frustration—after all, Undine has come home after over a decade of pretending that her family is dead—but they evoke instead a feeling of boredom...