Regretfully kind of true

"You want it to happen to the other person" (pg. 292) This is the quote from Julia when she explains that by saving themselves by wanting the other person to go through the pain, they really mean what they say. At first when I read this, I thought nah...they love each other. They were just willing to say anything at the time but they didn't really mean it. But as I thought about it and Julia explained it, it actually does make sense. At that moment of horror, selfishness oversomes your body and at that moment, you would rather have what is being done to you to another person. I think the realization of this shows the epitome of humanity's selfishness in the novel. This is the point in the story where no love or care for others is felt by either Julia or Winston and they have become the inhuman beings that the Party desires. Julia and Winston had now betrayed everything in their lives thus leaving them with nothing else but obedience to the Party.