In a lot of ways, Christian acts more like a wounded animal than a man. But - I don't think Christian is actually amoral - he knows his actions are morally dubious... it's not that he doesn't care, so much as he's weighing things against each other and making decisions...
But it doesn't seem fair that we just discount someone from moral responsibility. I mean . . . how do you run a society like that? How often do you choose to let someone off the hook from a moral existence, and under what pressures? What is enough to say, "Okay, you had it really tought, you don't have to be moral anymore?" I mean, yes, Christian has been scarred, but he wasn't raised by wolves; he wears Armani for Christ's sake. And I realize that a lot of his Lothario, four-hundred-dollar-sunglasses tendencies are to offset the no, I'm not okay, somebody please save me side of him, but it's not fair to just completely excuse him from morality altogether. Is it? Can we do that? That's not the point of Christian, is it?
It is pretty hilarious. I was trying to decide whether I thought Sean was a tool or a douche. I don't think there's a real definition there - you just have to go with your gut.
haha. I'm just imagining you sitting there, wilting under this internal struggle. Classic.
And Matt - man, time was, back in S1 that I thought that Matt was the only decent one of them... but then there was the whole incident where he and his buddy got high and drove over that girl, and Matt pretty much lost me forever.
Yeah, Matt . . . I used to like Matt. Before . . . well, before his hair started to scare me, for one. Now he's just fucking creepy. I'm sorry, but he is; I almost flinch when I look at him. I'm really, really sorry for his friend though. Henry? Poor little guy. And that poor girl . . . everything he touches just turns black and withers. *shivers*
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Re: Sean McNamara
In a lot of ways, Christian acts more like a wounded animal than a man. But - I don't think Christian is actually amoral - he knows his actions are morally dubious... it's not that he doesn't care, so much as he's weighing things against each other and making decisions...
But it doesn't seem fair that we just discount someone from moral responsibility. I mean . . . how do you run a society like that? How often do you choose to let someone off the hook from a moral existence, and under what pressures? What is enough to say, "Okay, you had it really tought, you don't have to be moral anymore?" I mean, yes, Christian has been scarred, but he wasn't raised by wolves; he wears Armani for Christ's sake. And I realize that a lot of his Lothario, four-hundred-dollar-sunglasses tendencies are to offset the no, I'm not okay, somebody please save me side of him, but it's not fair to just completely excuse him from morality altogether. Is it? Can we do that? That's not the point of Christian, is it?
It is pretty hilarious. I was trying to decide whether I thought Sean was a tool or a douche. I don't think there's a real definition there - you just have to go with your gut.
haha. I'm just imagining you sitting there, wilting under this internal struggle. Classic.
And Matt - man, time was, back in S1 that I thought that Matt was the only decent one of them... but then there was the whole incident where he and his buddy got high and drove over that girl, and Matt pretty much lost me forever.
Yeah, Matt . . . I used to like Matt. Before . . . well, before his hair started to scare me, for one. Now he's just fucking creepy. I'm sorry, but he is; I almost flinch when I look at him. I'm really, really sorry for his friend though. Henry? Poor little guy. And that poor girl . . . everything he touches just turns black and withers. *shivers*