In order not to offend them, a good portraitist is painting people the way they perceive themselves, not as they are in reality. Thus portraits of famous people aren’t valid historical documents.
My ex called me today, only to say that my mere existence is messing her life up, despite that we haven’t heard from each other in months, and live far away from each other. Does that mean that I should kill myself, in order to make her happy?
If only one Christmas sale doesn’t pan out, that would create a huge economic crisis in the US. I can’t even imagine what bombing them by a hundred-fold superior military country would do (e.g. US bombing Serbia). There’s no empathy in this cruel world.
