Young is an American citizen. He grew up in an Islamic country and became a Muslim. After he grew up, he returned to China. Since he was a nuclear expert when he served in the military, he thought of stealing the raw materials for making nuclear bombs and made several miniature nuclear bombs, which were placed in He evacuated his wife and children from several places he knew alone, then recorded a video and sent it to the government department, and then took the initiative to capture it in a supermarket. He knew what fate awaited him, but his belief was his spirit Pillar, he was ready for everything. He will use these nuclear bombs as a bargaining chip to demand that the United States change its policy towards Arab countries.
After the U.S. government captured him, an interrogation team was organized by the military, CIA, top psychologists, and several FBI agents, hoping to pry out the place where the nuclear bomb was placed from Young's mouth. When the military interrogation failed, the ruthless H was invited. As soon as he appeared, he chopped off one of Yang's fingers with an axe. The cruelty of the method was outrageous.
FBI agent Brody expressed anger at H's behavior. She thought it was a violation of the Geneva Conventions and was told that Young was a US citizen, she thought it was a violation of the Constitution, that Young as a US citizen should not be tortured to extract a confession, the top military officer replied to her that Young was canceled as a US citizen yesterday qualifications. People in the military yelled at her, the country is about to be destroyed, what is the constitution! Brody believes that Young should be asked about the whereabouts of the nuclear bomb, but Young's human rights should also be guaranteed.
H scoffs at this notion. He believes that no matter what means, as long as it can save most people.
The film is dark, gloomy and tragic.
The military and the anti-terrorist team also took a bit of luck. They believed that Young was a nonsense mental patient when the torture failed. Young managed to detonate an ordinary bomb in a large shopping mall with the help of the FBI, and it exploded on the spot. 53 people died. Brody was furious, and she accused Young of being inhuman, saying it was 53 living lives. Young replied to her that the people killed by the bombing of the Arab countries by the US military are also human lives. If the sacrifice of these 53 people is worthwhile to save the majority of the Arabs. Brody is silent, yes, if this logic holds true, for the tens of millions of people who may be hit by a nuclear bomb, for the sake of the American mainland that may become a scorched earth, no matter how much you torture Young, it is not too much.
However, the escalating torture did not make Yang Ge open his mouth, and the forced confession was so cruel that a ruthless person like H almost collapsed.
However, Yang Ge kept secret and surrendered without confirming that his wife and children left the country safely. His wife and children were brought back, and the first was his wife. Then he cut his wife's throat in front of Yang Ge, and died in front of Yang Ge with blood. But all this is not over yet, the time for the nuclear bomb to explode is getting closer and closer, and H will use two children as a bargaining chip. Brody is going crazy, she firmly opposes, she feels that Young's wife is very innocent, and then starts with two more innocent children, where is the dignity of the constitution, where is the dignity of the country?
H assures the military and Brody that he will never kill children, that is his bottom line, no matter how realistic he is, he must believe that he will not really hurt the children, if the acting is not realistic at all If so, Young won't tell the truth. In order to prevent Brody from harming him, he moved Young out of the interrogation room, locked himself and Young's children in the interrogation room, and locked the door. Young can see everything inside through the glass outside.
Young was deeply impressed and terrified by H's neat knife cutting the throat of Young's wife. He was convinced that there was nothing that this brutal person could not do. He rushed up to kill two children. Before, he quickly reported the location of the three nuclear bombs. Who knew that H had no sign of stopping. Everyone thought that H had collapsed under the huge pressure. The military immediately opened the door of the interrogation room and subdued H. The child was rescued, and Young took a gun and killed himself.
The subdued H asked coldly, did Young only say the locations of the three nuclear bombs? How do you know there is no fourth? He didn't tell you about bombs in the mall before, he is a cautious person, and the missing raw materials for making nuclear bombs are enough to make four nuclear bombs.
Brody felt that if there was a nuclear bomb, let it go. She took Young's two children in her arms and decided to adopt them -- if the fourth nuke wasn't in their city and they were still alive.
Somewhere in the bomb disposal site, a nuclear bomb was successfully dismantled, everyone cheered, and turned around the wall, somewhere not far away, another bomb was counting down, coldly counting down the seconds without any emotion: "Tick, tick, tick. , tick tock..." The
film came to an abrupt end here.
Discussions at this level of meaning are basically unnecessary in China. Don't say Yang Ge is a rebel. For rebels, there is nothing in our traditional culture that can be opened up, not only for him, but for his family as well. Thinking, Fang Xiaoru was barbaric from ten clans, up to the old man in his 80s, down to the little baby who was breastfeeding, wasn't he? That Brody was just a woman.
To take a step back, even if Yang Ge didn't have a bomb, when the opposite of his family was the public, the interests of their family of four had to be sacrificed and abandoned. Nail households, refusing to demolish is a typical example of harming public interests for personal interests. Personal interests should be sacrificed in the face of public interests. Is there any problem? No, at least not in the country.
In the Harvard Open Class "Justice", Michael J. Sardel started the lesson with a story: Suppose you are a trolley driver and your trolley is traveling at 60 miles per hour. You find that there are 5 workers working there at the end of the track, you try your best to stop, but you can't stop, your handbrake doesn't work, you feel very hopeless, because you know that if you hit To these five workers, they are sure to die, you don't know what to do, until you find that at the end of the track, there is a fork, and there is only one worker on that fork, and your steering wheel has not failed , so you can choose to turn the trolley down that fork, hit 1 worker, but save the 5. If it were you, what would you do?
Most chose to save five. The professor continued to give examples. In all kinds of situations, can a small number of people be sacrificed for the sake of most people? There are five patients in the hospital. They need organ transplants for the heart, liver, spleen, stomach, and kidney. It just so happens that a healthy person comes to the hospital for a physical examination. His internal organs are all normal. Rejection, then as a doctor, can you kill him and use his organs to save these five people waiting for organ transplants? One versus five, sacrificing the few for the many. The students in the audience laughed, but don't think this is ridiculous, the following is a real case.
There was a shipwreck in the UK, and the survivors were getting on a small boat. However, when they boiled to the point where they ran out of water and food, they did not wait for rescue, and no one knew how long they would be rescued. At this time a 17-year-old sailor fell ill and was on board for the first time. Others thought that he was dying anyway, and it was better to use his body to save the lives of most of the rest. So they killed the young sailor and drank blood and meat until they were finally rescued.
Afterwards, the survivors were charged with murder. If you were a jury member, would you convict them?
(There are many examples, I won't list them one by one. If you are interested, please ask Baidu to open the class.) The
professor later pointed out that this is called utilitarianism. Utilitarianism is dangerous because it violates the basic human rights of the few. And the majority is made up of the minority, and you never know at what level you will belong to the minority. Maybe you are a minority, maybe you are black, maybe you are a pagan, maybe your home is in the next plan to build a beautiful city that needs to be demolished,... Maybe you are the one who sells fruits on the street for a living but affects the appearance of the city That peddler, maybe, you could be the dying young sailor in the wrecked boat waiting to be rescued...
In the "Justice" class, there are some points of discussion that coincide with the point of view of the film "Strategic Task Force". In the film, it is utilitarianism for the United States to attack Arab countries. It is utilitarianism for Young to use the death of American citizens to save Arabs. It is also utilitarian for H to kill Younger’s wife to save American citizens. They all have firm beliefs and beauty. ideals and even love for human beings, but they themselves define most of them. It is true that capitalist countries value interests, and their politicians are ugly and shameless, but they dare to say that their politicians are ugly and shameless, and they will reflect, discuss, and improve. Is it right or not to sacrifice the interests of the few? What are human rights and how to protect them?
I also noticed a detail, that is, H, even if H tortured and extorted a confession and asked where Yang Ge hid the nuclear bomb, he is not a hero, even if he saved tens of millions of lives, he still has to accept it after the incident is over. legal sanctions. He knew it himself. There's always someone to do dirty things. He said.
In the "Justice" class, the further back I go, the more profound and thought-provoking discussions about these are. When people in other countries, including their children, are discussing and reflecting on these things, why are we still struggling?
Why our culture can't get out of the vicious circle of thousands of years of history is really a question worth pondering.
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