Although we have seen Billy Pilgrim’s attitude of not trying to make life better, I still don’t agree with it, and when I read something as absurd as saying that the bombing in Dresden was just fine, I must admit that I don’t really like it. “It was all right. Everything is all right, and everybody has to do exactly what he does. I learned that on Tralfamadore.” (p198). Once again he says that even being able to go back in time, he won’t change anything because it’s meant to be. How absurd is that?
Having the chance of saving those people’s lives, he wouldn’t do it because “It’s all right since it’s meant to be”. He could at least say that it was bad, and that it was a mistake and that it shouldn’t have happened, but he says that “It was all right”. It’s kind of a lazy attitude towards life, he’s like “Why bother in doing anything? Who cares about anything?”. I don’t know how a whole race like the Tralfamadorians can prosper with such an attitude.
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