Pip, I think they key point is that the child is brainwashed. What he wants he can get...but he is going it about the wrong way because he's been brainswashed by nonsense. People being brainwashed by nonsense is a problem anyway - and children are generally more vulnerable to it. The kid doesn't want to die, he wants to live - but he doesn't realize that the way he's going about it is wrong because he's brainwashed. It seems to me that's the problem here, Pip.
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