In the Hollywood movie Katniss Everdeen, played by Jennifer Lawrence, and Peeta Mellark, Josh Hutcherson, refuse to kill each other, choosing instead to take poison berries.
Today is a day to think about enlarging each of our lives, about the freedoms we omit or neglect, the freedoms we forget or refuse to grant each other.
And, because the brothers refuse to fight each other (for their mother's sake, they say), even people who can tell them apart disagree about which one is better.
The Ukrainian brothers hold three versions of the world crown, but there has been no chance of a unification bout for the simple reason that they refuse to fight each other.
Wedding guests are refusing to kiss each other hello, while businessmen say some of their colleagues have started politely refusing to shake hands.Few cases had been reported since the virus, a less infectious but deadlier version of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), was found in Saudi Arabia in September 2012.
But until now, however diverse in ideology, the assorted groups have refused to betray each other.
The two sides, like feuding junior high schoolers refusing to acknowledge each other, began holding separate legislative sessions at the same time.
Ronaldo and Messi petulantly refused to give each other a vote in previous years, highlighting the level of selfishness among the world's best.
The end result — an agreement between Israel and Hamas, which have long refused to acknowledge each other, brokered by a neighboring Islamist government — would have been unthinkable before the Arab Spring reshaped the region less than two years ago, toppling autocrats who had long held political Islam at bay and strengthening the hand of once-isolated groups such as Hamas.
The two Klitschkos had refused to fight each other on numerous occasions, but Vitali's decision to step away from boxing and focus on politics means Wladimir can become the first heavyweight boxer to hold all four of what are considered to be the major belts.
