Essay On Breaking Bad

Does cooking meth make someone a bad person? Ask anybody on the street and the answer would probably be a resounding “yes”. The topic of cooking meth and the meth industry in general is the main plot of the television show, Breaking Bad, and brings into question the morality of Walter White, a chemistry teacher turned meth cooker. For Greg Littman and Adam Barkman, it is more than a yes or no answer, for them it means delving into the science behind meth, the person who is cooking it, the specific actions or lack of actions done by said person, and so much more. Barkman supports the idea that meth production is immoral and that anyone who participates in the production is immoral and as a result is a bad person. Littman does nothing more than …show more content…
In order to do no harm, one could not do anything that would inflict any physical or emotional harm on others. Barkman emphasizes the fact that harming others is immoral, thus “Walt and Jesse seem to be harming people by producing and selling meth, especially since consistent meth use almost always causes, at the very least, crazy hallucinations (psychological harm) and brain damage (physical harm)” (Barkman 2). For Littman, however, Walt is just a cook, he merely enables users. This is a big point Littman tries to sell to the readers. Walter is just someone who makes the drug, he does not push the drugs onto people, it is up to the people whether they want to use it or not. Littman talks about how “Consenting adults want what they want” (Littman 2). This a short-sighted logic because at some point for a meth addict it no longer becomes consensual or a choice. An addict becomes an addict becomes they can no longer live without their drug of choice. Meth users become enslaved by the drug and no longer think they have any another choice. Going back to the morality of Walt’s cooking and Barkman’s position, by saying that Walt is just enabling, it is immoral to think Walt is not doing harm to a