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Originally Posted by bfisher
...That is what makes Emerance interesting for me - the shifting boundary between her charity and her self-interest. That is her complexity; her life has taught her to look out for herself, but her impulses lead her to look out for others...
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I had wondered if this was a characteristic of charitable people in the society she lived in. Such as being conditioned by the hardness of the past and being aware of the risks in the present if one crossed any politically conditioned boundary (such as appearing to usurp the power of political officers, so a threat, and giving charity in a political system where any need for charity is not supposed to exist)?