Is it worth dying to kill?

Heloise 2022-12-29 14:29:03

The education received since childhood is to kill for life. For a long time, when this concept has been instilled, it is natural to think that this is the undoubted truth.
After watching a lot of American dramas, I never understood that those murderers were only sentenced to hundreds of years in prison with a few lives on their backs, and then they continued to commit murders in prisons or after escaping from prisons. I didn’t understand such a judicial system. Or, they have the opportunity to harm others.
Later, I realized that our killing for one’s life is similar to what we respected in ancient times. It is better to kill a thousand by mistake than to let one go. Even if one or two are wrongly sentenced occasionally, most of them deserve what they deserve, but we often ignore those few. Digits are numbers for us, and 100% for the parties involved, not to mention that death is only the simplest and most rude way of punishment, it does not allow criminals to really reflect on their behavior, and many murderers will kill one. It is also death, so the more you kill, the more you earn.
Finally, let’s talk about the film. It was inevitable that the female reporter did not rescue David Gore. David Gore knew about it in advance, but he did not tell the truth after six years. He rejected all the top lawyers. Has been hiring BL, who has made mistakes and mistakes, and his suicide determination is better than Constance. Not going back is the hardest thing to do in a long time.

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  • Constance Harraway: Stop that!

    David Gale: What?

    Constance Harraway: Active listening, I hate active listeners. I always feel like they're to busy *pretending* to be listening to hear what I'm saying.

    David Gale: I can listen and actively listen at the same time. I'm good at that.

  • David Gale: Fantasies have to be unrealistic because the moment, the second that you get what you seek, you don't, you can't want it anymore. In order to continue to exist, desire must have its objects perpetually absent. It's not the "it" that you want, it's the fantasy of "it." So, desire supports crazy fantasies. This is what Pascal means when he says that we are only truly happy when daydreaming about future happiness. Or why we say the hunt is sweeter than the kill. Or be careful what you wish for. Not because you'll get it, but because you're doomed not to want it once you do. So the lesson of Lacan is, living by your wants will never make you happy. What it means to be fully human is to strive to live by ideas and ideals and not to measure your life by what you've attained in terms of your desires but those small moments of integrity, compassion, rationality, even self-sacrifice. Because in the end, the only way that we can measure the significance of our own lives is by valuing the lives of others.