What does it mean to live? What does it mean to die?
What do these questions mean in earth become hell?
And likewise, what it does it mean to live or die in our current world?
What choices do we make to live, while we live?
What choices do we make to die? After all, we are all dying.
In many ways the conversations between the man and the boy are a discussion about the ethics of living. Boiled down to their very essence. The choices that the man makes are not the same as the boy would make. And also the choices that the man makes that he does not articulate to the boy--that is, the decision to kill the boy or not.
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