Don Quixote’s Thought for the Day: Credit where credit is due
Don Quixote on Feb 04 2010 at 8:13 pm | Filed under: Uncategorized
We spend a lot of time on this blog critizing Hollywood for it’s one-sided view of things, even in fiction (see Bookworm’s post on Avatar for a recent example). So I must give credit where credit is due. CSI Miami this week started with a guy about to face the electric chair, when he’s given a short reprieve. The CSIs have 24 hours to prove he did the crime. Anybody who knows anything about Hollywood these days could have predicted what would happen next.
Sure enough other suspects emerge and it looks like the guy on death row will get off, an innocent man will be spared the horrors of that most horrible of of horribles, the death penalty. But a funny thing happened on the way to the needle. The man, a father convicted of killing his wife and daughter, turned out to be guilty.
In the final scene, as he is led off to die, he asks his only living child to forgive him. His son’s response? “You deserve it.” Who ever heard of such heresy? So give credit where credit is due. Maybe there is hope for a little piece of Hollywood after all.
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The son should have felt guilt that he couldn’t protect his mother and sister. And he should have said the death of the father is little recompense for the loss of two lives, even though his death is still justified in order to save future lives from him.
No mortal gets to decide which person deserves what punishment. At best, humans can fabricate a justice system in order to place imprimatur on a process that is close, but not ideal.
Hollywood still gets a fail. Whether they do pro-Left or pro-whatever, it’s still a cookie cutter impression with no depth or substance.
A lesson about making assumptions may be learned here, Y-man. The son was 7 years old at the time (though, of course, full grown by the time the system got around to killing the guy).
Greetings:
You don’t suppose that CSI: Miami is going after the anti-Law & Order ex-viewers, do you? Maybe they’ve been reading the Fox News Channel tea leaves and figure some bet-hedging is a good idea.
L&O has become the church of Lefty Liberalism with a new sermon every show. I can’t bear it any more.
<B>A lesson about making assumptions may be learned here, Y-man.</b>
A lesson? That’s a bad joke.
Guilt isn’t a rational logic experiment, DQ. You can assume that children don’t feel guilt when bad things happen to them (like divorce), but you’d better check those assumptions at the door. Besides, I don’t make those kinds of assumptions.They’re not things you can justify making simply because the politics feel agreeable to you.
<B>So give credit where credit is due.</b>
Giving credit to Hollywood for feeding revenge fantasies and projection defenses of people’s own inner demons and guilt is not something I have to do. Not for your benefit or for anyone else’s. Concentrate on backing up your statements, DQ. You don’t give enough detail, you just make statements as if they were true, premises as if they should be accepted, assumptions that need not be verified.
You got something you don’t like about my views, make an actual argument. Anything else is pretty flimsy. Stating things as if they were true from your perspective, does nothing.
Btw, I don’t think lawyers should be in a position where they glamorize or promote views that victims get to decide what constitutes justice or what people deserve.
Isn’t the point of a justice system and what we shell out for lawyers and judges, a way to bypass victim bias in the first place.
Let’s not forget those core underlying foundations of reality simply because a show caters to our political judgments. Real life consequences are a bit more deep than Hollywood flim flam, regardless of whether they call it pro-DP or anti-DP.