Harrison Zhang
Marilyn Holguin
Rhetoric 101 Section C3
14 December 2017
Human Do Not have Right to Kill Mark D. White and Robert Arp have written a short essay about whether Batman should kill Joker or not. But they didn’t claim their attitudes about the answer. In my opinion, we should not kill Joker or those who are terrorists. Killing is born wrong, moreover, we don’t have the power to let others die.
The two authors told us that casting difficult topics in a different right can help us think about the issue better. They didn’t directly claim whether Batman should kill the Joker or not, but they mentioned three major schools of thoughts, “Utilitarianism”, “Deontology”, and “Virtue ethics”. I agree with the second school most, and Batman should not kill the Joker.
In terms of the morality system, killing is not moral; in the respective of natural system, we don’t have right to kill people despite any bad things they have done and while the Joker did bad things, “he is still a human being, and is thus deserving of at least a minimal level of respect and humanity,” (White and Arp 545). Even if all of us hate him, he is still a person, which means that we should not freely strip his right to live.
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If they just analyze torture directly and professionally in the essay, it might be boring and hard for audiences to understand, as they wrote, “torture is an uncomfortable and emotional topic,” (Mark White and Robert Arp), torture is an unpleasant theme to write about. Furthermore, not everyone knows the true meaning between humanity and torture. Nonetheless, Batman is such a pop-culture character that it could successfully draw the topic forth. In this way, the reader will never be boring or upset to read their essay. As they are more interested in the essay, they will better understand the purport of the
In the view of author Kevin Mahadeo, one of the most insane tricks the Joker had pulled was when he had captured members of the Bat-Family and had Alfred serve them up some platters topped with their faces which he had cut off. (Mahadeo) This is a representation of how truly insane and twisted the Joker was. Although the joker was quite insane, some people have learned to love his evil ways because of how clever and inventive he was while he came up with tricks. Despite the Jokers insane tricks, his trickery is shown throughout today’s culture because of how thought out and clever he can
The Joker has no alter ego. He walks around the way he is with his deformed face full of scars and in some versions, with his bright colored hair and bleached skin, always with that maniac, chilling laughter which always makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up. He has no personal agenda to all the brutality he inflicts, no thirst for revenge or materialistic goals made him reach this point. He lives to dismantle the codes the society lives by and all he hopes for is to rip apart the expected codes of morality, so the people can then be free of any faith, any belief of right or wrong. He creates situations for the people of his town
In a movie where good and evil are divided by a very thin line, the Dark Knight rises up to fight against injustice and corruption in Gotham City. An action sequel to the original Batman Begins, this installment is a lot darker filled with more explosion, twists, and suspense. For the first time, a comic has been integrated into the issues of the real world. With the help of District Attorney Harvey Dent and Lieutenant Gordon, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining mob members and clean the streets of Gotham for good. Their success is only short-lived when they encounter the Joker, a mysterious mastermind who is out to prove that nobility cannot hold in a world of anarchy.
The Joker was once seen as a comical criminal who committed ridiculously silly crimes, such as spreading laughing gas throughout Gotham City. However, after the reinvention of Batman, The Joker was transformed into a grave and terrorizing character. Continuing the course of the new personality given to The Joker, writer Alan Moore and artist Brian Bolland created a graphic novel called The Killing Joke, “a much more complex, darker, and ultimately, frightening story” (Wooldridge) which tells one of the origins of The Joker since The Joker himself is unsure of his true inception. However, this particular graphic novel “isn’t about how the Joker came to be, it’s an examination of
With authors Mark D. White and Robert Arp’s knowledge of science, economics, philosophy and ethics they help us analyze ethical approaches to real-world issues by arguing for the value of pop culture. White and Arp do a great job relating Batman’s relationship with the Joker to America’s choice to torture. This comes together with the quote by Galeano because they both show an underlying meaning of the ethics behind issues with terror and torture. If Batman is to kill the Joker, there would be many different reasons as to why it is not acceptable. One being that since the Joker is a human, it would not be morally okay to kill him. Another reason is that Batman would then have the character of someone who kills their enemy. Although killing an enemy is sometimes glorified, when you look at the bigger picture it will show more about that person’s mentality than you would think. Like the quote says, the purpose of torture is not to gain information, but to spread fear.
Batman contradicts his morals while he is fighting the mutant leader and when he is about to shoot him he stops himself with “though that means crossing a line I drew for myself thirty years ago”. While Batman did not kill the mutant leader, earlier on Batman shoots a mutant grunt with a machine gun and faded blood is splattered behind the criminal holding a baby captive (Miller, 64). Later on in the novel Batman says to the joker “a gun is a coward’s weapon, a liars weapon” (Miller, 149). Batman has power to stick to his morals, to take on the evil of Gotham City, and to make the decision to deliver justice no matter whose side of the law he is. However, in the novel he has clearly stated that killing someone crosses his morals and that he despises guns yet he uses them to kill criminals. Batman crosses his golden rule of not killing criminals and shows that he will go above his own moral code of justice.
If criminals are not immediate threats, they 'll be let go. Beowulf follows a similar code. He says to Unferth, “You murdered your brothers, Your own close kin. Words and bright wit/ Won’t help your soul.” (320-323.) Beowulf would not harm anyone unless they would harm innocents. They are also both committed to battling corruption. Beowulf travels many miles from home to aid Hrothgar and fight Grendel. Beowulf knows his heroic duty calls him to protect the people of Daneland, even if they aren 't his. Batman feels it’s his responsibility to fight evil in Gotham. He battles criminals regularly and ultimately ends the Joker 's reign. Batman is not threatened by these enemies, but the people of Gotham are, and thus he fights for them. Batman and Beowulf bear the burden of heroic responsibility well.
In this quote, the Joker is speaking to Batman. In this, he’s talking about Harvey Dent. The movie tells the audience that Harvey Dent is seen as the hero of Gotham city, that is why Joker characterizes him as “Gotham’s white knight.” The Joker convinced Harvey Dent to do evil because Harvey didn’t have anything to live for. He had one motive and that was because of his wife, who is now dead; therefore, it wasn’t difficult for the Joker to convince him to kill everyone that was to blame. Joker doesn’t care for anyone, but to cares only for himself. He also likes to see people suffer. Additionally, he tells Harvey to kill everyone that was held responsible for the death of his wife. As one can see, the Joker doesn’t have a moral code because
”(Batman: The Killing Joke). Batman when fight with crimes, he fights it with some restrictions, because he believe in justice is for all and all deserve a chance that why he is never willing to kill Joker, and whenever he catches him he put him in the Arkham Asylum. In all the Batman series, it is high lightened that if one wants to make a change in the world he simply can’t fight with rules and ordeals of the world which is conveyed by one of the dialogue by Harvey Dent a.k.a Two- Face to Batman, “You thought we could be decent men in an indecent time. But you were wrong.
Gotham crazy and lawlessness bring the Batman increasingly close to going beyond the thin moral way, among courageousness and becoming a vigilante. People can also describe the joker as a psycho with a hint of schizo clown with zero compassion. He is self-motivated in both psychological war and calculated design, The Jokers physical type is distinct with the joker face paint along with his grim smirk to complement his bizarre humor to all his wrongdoing and law-breaking.
There are two main characters that the storyline revolves around, Batman and the Joker. Batman serves as the guardian of Gotham City. The Joker, however, stands as the villain who strives to create a world of chaos. Hobbes’ theory on state of nature says that society is the sole reason that humans act civilized. Hobbes’ believes in the “state of war,”, which is a way of life that is proven to be brutal and short. The Joker’s main goal is to prove that people have the natural capability to do evil. While he attempts to prove this throughout his many twisted plans, he is driven to eliminate the one thing that keeps Gotham City from turning hopeless and chaotic, Batman. Without its protector, Gotham City would soon turn to a “state of war.” Hobbes’ also says, “Fear makes natural man want to escape the
The Dark Knight I watched a good movie recently, it was the Dark Knight. 2008 film directed, co-producer, and co-writer Christopher Nolan. Batman was played by Christian bale, the Joker was played by Heath Ledger. Nolan's inspiration for the movie was the Joker's comic book debut in 1940, the 1988 graphic novel/comic “The Killing Joke”, and the 1996 series “The Long Halloween,” that retold Two-Face's origin. In this review I will assess the character Joker and why batman doesn't kill Joker.
The Joker, is a purposeless criminal. He will destroy anything, or anyone who gets in his way, just to accomplish his goal, to break Batman's personal rules, to never kill or harm anyone, but to save Gotham City from danger and
Another common thing that the Joker does is that he attempts to conceal the true reasons for his actions. In other words, the Joker uses defense mechanisms to distance himself from reality as a means to protect himself from the horrid things he has done (Friedman & Schustack, 2009). He demonstrates the specific defence mechanism of rationalization and he does this by trying to justify murdering Harvey Dent's, a pivotal character to the film's plot, girlfriend. He explains to Dent that her death was not his fault and he does such things (i.e., killing innocent people) to show others how pathetic they are for believing that they have control in their lives “ “ (De La Noy & Nolan,
At that point, according to the Joker, they drop their phony façade and behave like the chaotic, selfish animals that we all are. I submit that his motivation is to conduct social experiments to prove himself correct- that at the core people are controlled by their own selfish needs (while he is only controlled by his own delusion of pretentiousness). He has two men fight to the death with one sharp stick between them. He gives two boatloads of people the detonator to bombs on the other ship. He tells Batman that if he [Batman] wants to catch him [the Joker], that he’s going to have to break his One Rule that was brought up at the end of the first movie—to not kill.