he was trying to make us think about how life is hard and people suffer in all sorts of ways without our adding to their suffering to satisfy our sense of vengeance , but i sort of do n't think that the quote holds up in the real world where literature and schooling and philosophy and morality do n't exist , because asher and linda and so many other culpable people seem to be fine-functioning exceptionally well within the world even-while i 'm under a disgusting bridge about to put a hole in my skull .