Tuesday, December 1, 2009
The Dark Knight
In the film, The Dark Knight, the characters are forced to contemplate how to live a good and decent life when they are surrounded by evil and crime. Batman, played by Christian Bale is forced to choose between saving the life of the girl he loves and saving the life of another character, Harvey Dent, who can help make things better for everyone in Gotham City. Batman must choose between his own happiness and the safety of citizens he barely knows. How would you react? Would you do what is good for you...or sacrifice what is good for you for the good of everyone else?
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I would react by sacrificing what is good for me for the good of everyone else. Unless it was a family member. Also if I recall correctly, Batman chose to save Harvey Dent which turned out being very, very, bad for everyone else. Thank God this is not a realistic situation.
If I were in that situation I would chose to save the whole city instead of myself. It would be selfish to put one life in front of thousands of lives. By saving the one person nothing good, besides my own happiness, would come from it, but if i could save the one person who could help a whole city live it would help many people live.
It is of course a very tough chioce. To save someone you love or save someone who can help the city of many people. I think I would save the one I love because I am Batman, I can do/save anyone or anything. So by saving the person I love, I can just save everyone else. Batman can do that.
i would save the girl because batman is not happy ever and she is the only one to make him happy he saves the city by himself anyway he doesnt need dent he should have saved rachel.
i would save the girl he loves because i would be happy in life than not at all. i rather be in a bad city than and be happy. so i would choose the girl
i would save the girl he loves. becuase that will make him happier, even though he'll be happy saving other people, he would probably care more about the perosn he likes.
I would have to choose to save the city. The needs of one is not as important as the needs of many. However, I do agree with JBruce, because if this person was a family member, it would be unbearably difficult to choose. In the given situation, though, I would have to choose to save the city.
i would sacrifice what is good for you for the good of everyone else. i would not beabale to live with myself if i chosse what was best for me not the thousand of people. im only one person when theres millions out there.
I would sacrifice the good for me for the good of everyone else. If i lost somebdy I love, I would eventually get over it. But if it was a whole city at steak, it would be impossible to fix.
i would probably try a way to save both. Or save the one i love then try to save harvey . It turned out in the movie that harvey went insane and became the caracter called 2 face because they didnt save the girl; also the one he loves. So it would of ended up being better if he had saved the girl. But i think batman did try to save the girl but the joker told him the opposite addresses because he knew harvey would be easy to crack after the death of his loved one.
i would have saved the girl... i would save her because she is one beacon of happiness for batman. Even though she might hate me in the end because Harvey died its still the beacon that could pull batman out of the darkness every time he needs it.
Also JBruce he didnt decide to choose harvey he was tricked... if you watch the movie he clearly says you go for harvey ill get rachel. when he gets to the place where the joker has sen him he is tricked and has harvey there instead of rachel.
I would probually save the girl. I would choose to save the girl becasue i would want myself to be happy. Plus i have seen the movie so i know that she has i very good job so that she could remain to do her job.
Let's try to take ourselves away from the events in the film and focus on the question at hand...would you sacrifice your personal chance at happiness for the happiness of strangers...people you do not know and people who might not make the same choice. This question is eerily similar to "Button, Button" and "The Monkey's Paw".
I cannot decide; if I gave up my happiness, everyone around me would be happy, but not me. I would be very down and blue, this doesn't suit me. If I brough myself happiness, the people around me would become very down and blue, and when people are sad all the time, it just annoys me. That's a reason I cannot, absolutely canNOT watch weepy weepy movies or weepy weepy books. Sadness can be too overrated and just out right annoying. Overall, I really can't decide, and hope I never will have to because I am stuck. Be depressed and blue all the time, or happy but pissed when I'm around other people. I can't seem to find a compromise between the two. Grrr.
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