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Religion also suggests that suffering exists in order to differentiate between good and evil. On the other hand, how can one differentiate between right and wrong. If there is always the promise of forgiveness, then there would be anarchy. The line between right and wrong would be blurred. In a different section of The Brothers of Karamazov, another brother, Mitya, is in prison charged with murder, and he is pondering the idea of god not existing. He asks Aloysha, “If god doesn’t exist, man is the chief of the earth” (Schilling pg. 65). Mitya has shattered the illusion of God, and has freed himself from this path which allow him to create his own. We are released from the obligation to forgive those who have made us suffer.
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