8th
Watchmen
Last night I saw Watchmen. If your intending on seeing this movie, you probably should read this because I’ll spoil it. I had no idea what the plot of this movie was but I heard that it was supposed to be amazing and I had a friend who was going to see it so I tried. So for anyone who doesn’t know about this movie, it is based on a very successful graphic novel about a group of vigilantes that is trying to get by after society turned on them and an anonymous assassin has started killing them off. As it turns out, one of its own members, Adrian, is behind the conspiracy. Adrian is killing his comrades so that he can frame someone for an attack on America and prevent a nuclear war. I know this is confusing, but basically, Adrian destroyed an American city and killed millions of people in order to prevent the murder of millions more.
I don’t feel that this is ethical and a worthy sacrifice, but it is essentially the question of whether you would kill one to save ten. Adrian thought that he was sacrificing one American city and that this would save all of the other cities which were under the threat of nuclear attack from the Soviet Union. However, at least in this case, we already know that this was not a good sacrifice since the Cold War ended without any nuclear attacks. So obviously this was not a smart plan, but it got me to thinking out taking such radical action to prevent the possibility of something bad happening. I think premature action is kind of why we are in Iraq; we were afraid of them potentially having nuclear weapons and everything so we decided to act just in case they wanted to attack the US. So I feel like its not very smart to act radically on a problem before its actually a problem.
