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Originally Posted by MikeWaters
I don't know that the novel asks to accept or like what the father has done. In fact, the entire novel shows a struggle between the father's ethos and the son's sense of morality.
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Not the entire novel. The son's ethos is largely a product of the father's. They disagree on the margins, whether to save a dog, to give some of their precious food to a hopeless old man. They agree it's a bad thing to kill and eat other humans. In this they are in solidarity and apart from virtually all of humankind that still remains.