Society is so much more brutal; it is coarser and crueller.
For people on low incomes the same choice hardly exists, or if it exists it is only in a crueller form, as a choice between necessities—between fuel and food.
The reason is simpler and crueller.
Despite the crueller winter climates in those countries, their increase in winter deaths due to fuel-related poverty is smaller.
The children are, if possible, more unfeeling and crueller than their seniors.
It was then a much harsher and crueller world.
Those are one or two of the crueller cases.
Instead, they have to face the cruel dilemma—there can be none crueller—of deciding who shall profit from their skill and who shall not.
