Boys do not have the monopoly in Staring Business, after all.
The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy.
It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.
We acknowledge that being the person God made you cannot separate you from God's love.
Your driving is unpleasant, but it isn't technically unsafe.
As a reader, I don't feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a bigger world than the one I know.