I believe the moral of the story is trying not to break your own moral code no matter what. It is to do what you believe is the good thing to do even if your are faced with a significant amount of trouble because of it. Joker tries to mess with people’s beliefs by trying to get them to be hypocrites when he sets up the ethical issues discussed in part 2. He wants to prove that everyone’s morals are meaningless since they will break them when they are faced with tough situations. Yet, over and over again people in the movie prove the Joker wrong. In the ferry boat, everyone proved that they are not always self interested because they decided not to blow each other up. The only exception to this would be Harvey Dent. Joker managed to corrupt
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Most of them tried hard not to break their code and found ways around the Jokers tactics to prove to him that they weren’t cowardly and weak. They proved to the Joker that all people aren’t out for themselves, even in chaos. Unlike Dent, they didn’t give in to Akrasia but showed a strong sense of Enkrateia and controlled their appetites. Even the Joker fought for his beliefs until the very end. In a way, the Joker had his own tiny victory by proving that even people with good intentions can go off the deep end. Watching the movie felt like seeing multiple philosophers arguing but they brought up real life situations to prove each other wrong. Sometimes the Joker’s views prevailed and sometimes the Batman’s did. At the end of the movie, the Joker talked about how he and Batman could go back and forth forever. When a group of people are passionate about two different views of the world perhaps there is no way that they could live together peacefully. Maybe that’s the reason why so many people end up in jail. Not because what they do is necessarily right or wrong, it’s just the people who are in control suppress their actions or ideas for their own self …show more content…
We don’t have to be afraid when our ethical systems are questioned. If you have strong enough belief in your moral values you might be able to find your own unique way to solve a dilemma since there can be multiple solutions to many problems in the world. We don’t have to split into chaos every time something does not go our way. An issue with this message people may have is that if we don’t give up on our values sometimes, people will try to suppress you and threaten your safety. However, even if we have a difference in values, we don’t have to resort to violence in order to live together. We can have discussions where we state our moral values and agree or disagree with other people’s beliefs respectfully in places in the world that are generally more accepting to certain ideas that people
Most of them tried hard not to break their code and found ways around the Jokers tactics to prove to him that they weren’t cowardly and weak. They proved to the Joker that all people aren’t out for themselves, even in chaos. Unlike Dent, they didn’t give in to Akrasia but showed a strong sense of Enkrateia and controlled their appetites. Even the Joker fought for his beliefs until the very end. In a way, the Joker had his own tiny victory by proving that even people with good intentions can go off the deep end. Watching the movie felt like seeing multiple philosophers arguing but they brought up real life situations to prove each other wrong. Sometimes the Joker’s views prevailed and sometimes the Batman’s did. At the end of the movie, the Joker talked about how he and Batman could go back and forth forever. When a group of people are passionate about two different views of the world perhaps there is no way that they could live together peacefully. Maybe that’s the reason why so many people end up in jail. Not because what they do is necessarily right or wrong, it’s just the people who are in control suppress their actions or ideas for their own self …show more content…
We don’t have to be afraid when our ethical systems are questioned. If you have strong enough belief in your moral values you might be able to find your own unique way to solve a dilemma since there can be multiple solutions to many problems in the world. We don’t have to split into chaos every time something does not go our way. An issue with this message people may have is that if we don’t give up on our values sometimes, people will try to suppress you and threaten your safety. However, even if we have a difference in values, we don’t have to resort to violence in order to live together. We can have discussions where we state our moral values and agree or disagree with other people’s beliefs respectfully in places in the world that are generally more accepting to certain ideas that people