Ickapoo finds life meaningless because he is alone. Life's meaning is lived only in relation to Others, taking on their burdens, pains, suffering and providing relief.
In Jacques Derrida's The Death Penalty, the aporia between abolitionist calls for termination of the Death penalty in the name of Christian regards for the sacredness for life such as Victor Hugo's views on the necessity of abolishing the death penalty in respect for the inviolability of human life and the contrasting anti-abolitionist view which views the Death penalty as a sacred injunction to uphold a divine law in the manner of Kant's categorical imperative and God's decree to take the life of one who has killed another is examined. Derrida describes the deadlock as one between Christological transcendence and immanent
