What message is expressed in hiroshima's opening paragraph, which describes the lives of ordinary people going about their day?

The answer is whether one lives or dies in war war is chance

That there are two lovers that like each ither

The answer is "he was bad enough in all conscience, but the devil himself could not temp him to turn slave-trader. satirical is a synonym for sarcastic. so when the author says that tom walker could not be tempted by the devil he does not literally mean "the devil" but he means that he is too morally upright to become a slave-trader.