Simplify the following text for a Grade 7 native English-speaking person.
Original: In The Brothers Karamazov , it is expressed more than once by different characters that in the absence of God and immortal life , everything would be lawful .
Simplified: In The Brothers Karamazov , the character Dimitri Karamazov asks his atheist friend Rakitin , â ... without God and immortal life ? All things are lawful then , they can do what they like ?