Yes, but what good will all this do me when a child of mine dies, or if my brother, or I myself, have to die or be tortured?’ [19] Nothing. Because that’s not why you came, not why you took your seat in front of me, not the reason you sometimes sacrificed sleep to study by lamplight.

So why take on the burden of matters which you cannot answer for? You are only making unnecessary problems for yourself.

Can we avoid people? How is that possible? And if we associate with them, can we change them? Who gives us that power?