in any case , the two groups are so dissimilar from each other and so intransigent that democracy is rendered ineffectual , so this , of course in the thought process of the fictional character , seems to have allowed me to spring off into myriad other inquiries , then examine what happened in the protagonists childhood background that may have induced this skepticism , and then , if there is no morality , determine , in his perspective , what values do exist and can not be easily repudiated ; and of course this scrutiny being done during a time of grenade attacks , gunfire , and military helicopters as self and environment as well as the evanescent nature of life and the meaning of existence are more fully scrutinized under such situations .