(03-29-2019, 05:47 AM)FaceInTheCrowd Wrote: Not on the street. Wholesale. We had cops being busted for selling drugs from evidence lockup to drug dealers.
Wow. Well there are good and bad in every profession. This kind of a story would make front page news in a lot of newspapers. However, the stories about the good cops who do something great for the community....not so much. It would be fortunate to get a paragraph somewhere.
(03-25-2019, 11:42 AM)Hexenadler Wrote: You seem to perceive "goodness" as some kind of restraint, or shackle. I know it wasn't your intent, but viewing morality as a limitation is exactly what villains do. I feel sociopaths/psychopaths don't bother to understand morality simply because they can't, even though they try to justify their actions by saying it's simply something that holds you back. You could argue all the uber-rich assholes currently exploiting America's working class are proof that following your conscience doesn't get you anywhere, but give a few more decades, we might not even have a PLANET for anyone to live on, so everybody loses, including the assholes. I'm fed up with different TV series taking an ambiguous stance on morality (i.e. "Game of Thrones," ""Breaking Bad") only because the showrunners/writers feel it makes for better storytelling. That's a very immature perspective to take, and it's also a dangerous one.
I was merely talking about good from a character perspective. In real life, people are far too complicated to be compacted into a term like restraint, whether they be good or bad.
As for Grimm, I do agree with you that G&K are often morally ambiguous. However, it seems to be just as ambiguous when the characters actually do make an attempt at ethical behavior. For instance, Adalind's apology to Eve. I thought the effort was an honest and sincere one. But look at the character to whom the apology was offered, Eve. She said nothing and appeared completely indifferent.
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