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No, you are not. these people must've masturbated, hence they're sinful.
I sin multiple times per day but it's ok because I always make sure to kill god first.
I mean, the trolley obviously can't fit under the bridge, so this seems like a mass murder/suicide scenario.
And then here comes Cormac McCarthy (RIP) to shit all over your idea of some benevolent god, to give you a real sense of how chaotically brutal the reality of life actually is, to question autonomy and the very notion of free-will, and to maybe, as a side-effect of literature, to make you think twice about everything you've assumed about the world.
Gonna miss that guy.
I don't know why the Nobel asswipes didn't give him the recognition he deserved.
My guess is that his work was too "American" for their tastes.
I was thinking more of "Blood Meridian," but it's definitely true that "The Road" tackles a lot of similar themes albeit on a more personal and isolated scale.
I think "No Country" also is a continuation of said themes, with Anton Chigur as a sort of modern incarnation of The Judge. He must own everything. Nothing can be allowed to exist or happen save by his dispensation.
He is an amoral archon, as is life and the universe itself. He is offended only by those who refuse to acknowledge and countenance the cruel and arbitrary nature of reality itself.
Decisions and random facts of chance have permanent consequences, none of which can or should be escapable. It's offensive to The Judge/Anton Chigur that anyone might imagine otherwise.
Of course that is not something I could judge by myself. You will have to ask the people in the situation and see what they will answer of their own free will.
