law or morality

Teresa 2022-04-21 09:03:38

Yet another test of human nature, yet another paradox.

After Polo experienced life and death in his later years, the only case in which he chose morality and gave up the law. The sadness and tears at the end of the film are also a silent answer to this answer.

I have seen a multiple-choice question. On the train track, there are 5 illegal children playing on one side of the normal track, and a child playing on the other side of the abandoned railway track. As a train driver, which side will you choose to save?

This is cruel.

No one deserves to die, is 5 lives more important than 1? Or is wrong more easily forgiven than right. No one knows how to choose.

When facing such a situation, when facing the vicious murderer who was killed, he also made the same choice as other passengers. Sometimes the law cannot punish, then let people punish themselves. Bar.

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Murder on the Orient Express quotes

  • Mary Debenham: You said of the woman in Istanbul that she knew the rules of her culture and knew what breaking them would mean. So did Cassetti.

    Hercule Poirot: [harshly] And so do you!

    Mary Debenham: When you've been denied justice... you are incomplete. It feels that God has abandoned you in a stark place. I asked God... I think we all did... what we should do, and he said do what is right. And I thought if I did, it would make me complete again.

    Hercule Poirot: [coldly] And are you?

    Mary Debenham: [long pause, then] But I did what was right.

  • Lieutenant Blanchflower: If I may speak out of turn, sir... I think it unjust that one mistake cost Lieutenant Morris so dearly. He was a good man... who was involved in an accident.

    Hercule Poirot: [turns to face him] Unjust?

    Lieutenant Blanchflower: He made an error of judgement. He was a good man.

    Hercule Poirot: It did not have to end in suicide.

    Lieutenant Blanchflower: I think he believed he had no choice.

    Hercule Poirot: A man like your friend, Lieutenant, always has choice, and it was his choice to lie that brought him into difficulty with the law.

    [He turns away]