The Bookdock Saints : Moral Dilemma

They are beaten and pushed around, but they can’t leave because the protagonist lost his keys, or as he puts it “that i was in a lot of trouble, and that the lost ignition key was my grail and my salvation”. Basically the protagonist states that his car keys were the only way out of this mess. So in the heat of the moment the kids grab a tire iron, and hit their attacker unconscious. The protagonist and his friends were afraid that they may have killed the man. And this is the second instance the teenagers realize they are not meant for the rebel

The age old question of ethical ambiguity is something that humanity may never resolve. Conflicting morals and the ultimate question of “is what I’m doing right?” is one of the greatest human mysteries. Philosophers, psychiatrists and every individual on the planet must grapple with this moral confusion in an attempt to find unique solutions to everyday dilemmas. In Affleck’s drama Gone Baby Gone, two very notable philosophies collide head on, and the protagonist must choose between the two to find the solution that he feels is ‘right.’

Meursault's character is the determining factor in his conviction and sentencing. His social rebellion is deemed immoral and abominable. The reader and the novel's characters both try to rationalize Meursault's actions in order to give his life meaning. But according to Meursault, life is meaningless and consequently needs no justification.

Two days later, Mrs. Ottesen saw the boys again. She alerted the police and an officer started following them. He asked for their identification cards. They gave the officer the cards and the officer made them go back to their house-which was a monastery as their father was a priest. Knud and Jens’s parents weren’t home. More police arrived on scene. “Where are the weapons?” one police officer asked. Jens led the police straight to the cellar where they kept the weapons. Soon, all the boys were arrested. Each was brought to the police station and interrogated separately. This way it was impossible to lie. Whenever one tried to lie, someone else would tell the truth.

Within the short story “On Morality”, Joan Didion examines and redefines morality in a manner that strays from defining it as a feeling to do right than wrong through the tales of a driver, diver, and widow from Death Valley. Didon attempts to convey to the audience that each individual defines and views mortality differently. She provides a great example of the latter that dumbfounded me, “‘I followed my own conscience.’ ‘I did what I thought was right.’ How many madmen have said it and meant it?” Thus, the matter of what is right and wrong in universal standards does not exist even though, mortality is shared amongst one another.

In one of the scenes of the movie, Connor and Murphy were struggling their way through a vent. Traveling through the vent was so difficult because Connor demanded that they needed a rope. Constantly going back and forth fighting, the vent gives and falling down, the twins get tangled up in the rope. With a few seconds to think they break free their hands and shoot around the room killing all the Russians. The both of them gathered all the bodies that they killed, crossed the arms, and placed pennies on each of the mens eyes.

The movie begins in New York, in 1843, with a gang fight. Bill "the butcher" Cutting's gang of "nativists" have challenged the "dead rabbits" (a gang of mostly Irish immigrants) to a fight to settle once and for all who is the most powerful gang in the area. After an intense battle the "nativists" win by killing the leader of the "dead rabbits", also Amsterdam's (the main character's) father.

In the opening scene is shows three boys playing street hockey, Jimmy, Sean, and Dave, when two men pull up in a car posing as police officers and abduct one of the boys (Dave) he is held captive and is tortured until he escapes. The movie then shows these three individuals in present day with their families. Jimmy owns small store which he runs with his daughter Katie, Sean who is a Homicide Detective for Boston and Dave who married and has a young boy.

THEME: The line between good and evil is sometimes unclear, and as a result, people often think that they are doing the right thing when it is actually the wrong action, and vice versa.

Both had to rely on each other now, for support that their father could no longer give them. Reference to the cold war, As Vincent Canby, from The New York Times states, “ it is a movie that says that guns do not kill people, but people who kill people, without going that one step further to acknowledge that it is people with guns who kill people”(Canby 19).

Challenge: Select and describe a “moral panic” against a perceived deviance. Analyse the role of the “moral entrepreneur” and “folk devil” in your selected case. Finally, explicate what it demonstrates about individuals and their socialization. (Length: 2 000 words)

It is my intention to compare the book, Dangerous Liaisons by Choderlos de Laclos, to its modern movie version, Cruel Intentions starring Sarah Michelle Gellar. I intend to examine how the original French text was modified in reference to plot, character, morals/values, and themes. I also plan to discuss how these transformations change the meaning of the story and reflect different cultural/historical contexts. There are some major differences between these two works, if only because of when they were written.

Whether or not you accede with the themes in Marquis De Sade’s “Misfortunes of Virtue”, there is no doubt his works are some of the most inciting to have ever been constructed. Although Marquis debates several beliefs in his works, he focuses on one in “The Misfortunes of Virtue” that seems shaky. The theory of Vice versus Virtue in the words of De Sade has no logical aspect to it, at least to a “down to earth human being”. De Sade once said,” In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.” De Sade’s conception of vice and virtue is nowhere near what we perceive it to be. Though, through the utilization of multiple characters, his neutral stance and erroneous logic, we as readers can sift through the differences and visually perceive the authentic meaning of vice and virtue by using common day human logic and experiences to construct a more up to date version of De Sade’s “Vice and Virtue”.

Tensions continue to rise to the point of an altercation, leading to a separation in the Bielski clan - Zus joins the Russian army rebels who are also hiding out in the forest. The director shows the stark difference between the brothers when it comes to taking a life, Tuvia going out of his way not to pull the trigger and Zus not hesitating one second. Both are leaders but with differing views of what being a leader means.

The Punisher’s ethical and moral code, which consists of protecting the innocent while indiscriminately killing all criminals, is a prime example of utilitarianism(teleological). So, far in this course, we have explored virtue ethics, teleological ethics, and deontological ethics. I have chosen the film, The Punisher, to use for this assignment. In this film, the main character (Frank Castle) is a former special operations marine who witnesses his family murdered by the mob. He then proceeds to become a supplier of vigilante justice under the name, The Punisher.