pitilessness

“The Murdochs,” though, is just as persuasive of its namesakes’ pitilessness.

In a system of brutality and pitilessness, he finds a few people capable of extraordinary kindness, particularly one local teenage girl.

He doubled down on his own pitilessness, even toward his own people, saying that if they didn’t fight “they deserve to die out.”

However, along with the pitilessness I also have considerable compassion for a young man who was clearly suffering from mental illness, and whose background was at best neglectful – and at worst abusive.

But as it is I perceive behind them only the suffering of the creature, the awful melancholy of life and the pitilessness of men.