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>>5196514

A hint as to why he behaved the way he did is carried in the Narrator's “this capacity of Russians to adapt themselves” to other peoples’ morality “does show a wonderful flexibility and that clear common sense that can forgive evil wherever it is seen to be inevitable or ineradicable.” response to Maximich's stance on Kazbich's actions. Pechorin is completely denied happiness thanks to his own broken notions of excitement and his spiritual insatiability. Along with this pardoning of evil, he can justify doing anything he perceives to be in his nature.