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Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Emily Ball H1 Midterm Blog Post (3/4)

Goodness Shall Never Be Achieved
 
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honerable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." I believe that George Bernard Shaw had a point when he said this. If we don't make mistakes, then what would make life interesting? A life spent living in a box while doing nothing should not be considered a life at all. The way I see it, Jack Sparrow is living his life to the fullest. Even if he is not living the way his society or the many philosophers may want him to, at least he is actually "living" his life. Or we could think like the philosopher Pyrrho when he stated, "Don't commit and you won't be disappointed." Not committing to life is like living your life inside a giant bubble. Yes, it may be fun at first, but after a while it would become quite tiring. A boring life is not a fun fulfilled life. I connect this with being"good". A bad person by society's eyes may just be a person living on the edge, not afraid of everything life throws at him or her. This would be the perfect example of Jack Sparrow. Basically, he does not care what other people think about him. He lives his life by his own rules, and considers himself a good person. Stealing and being a traitor aren't exactly the ideal characteristics associated with a commonly good person, but it does not make Jack an all-around bad person. Let's be real. We have all stolen something, whether we want to admit ot or not. We may not even remember it. Imagine sitting in a playpin as a toddler. This other toddler has everything. I mean EVERYTHING. He has the coolest blocks, and the newest bouncy balls. You just HAVE to have at least one. I mean, he probably is not even going to realize that one is even missing! So what do you do? You steal it. Does this condemn you to be considered a bad person for the rest of your life? NO. Granted, you are just a toddler, and probably do not even know any better. That is beside the point though. Even as adults, we try and condemn people for mistakes. Even if that mistake is something so minute that you will not even remember it tomorrow. This is the lesson I am trying to portray, even if we do bad things, that does not make us a bad person. Sure we will not be considered a "good" person from society's eyes, but then again, why are we even paying attention to society in the first place. I think we all need to be a little more like Jack Sparrow. Not exactly the killing people part, but the living life. If we all live life unafraid of how people will view us, would we still be doing the same things that we do now?
In the third movie, I noticed a person that I do not view to be good in any way. This person is Lord Beckett. No matter what he does, he ONLY looks out for his own best interest. In the beginning of the movie, he is condemning so many people to death. Some for only associating with a pirate. He suspended their right to assembly, right to Habeus Corpus, right to legal counsel, and right to a jury of peers. To me, this is not allowing the people to be considered humans. They were given no right to defend or rebute. There was even a young child hung that probably did not even know why he was being killed. Killing innocent people is not often a welcomed characteristic of any good person.
Sometimes, the right thing to do is not the easiest or best thing to do. We all face demons of our own which pull us in different directions. What we do about this is what affects our personality. At one point in the movie, Jack has two mini Jack Sparrows on his shoulders. As many people have seen before, one stands for his evil side, and one stands for his good side. He is struggling between the two ideas, when he chooses neither. He picks his own way. To me, this shows that he is an independent and unique individual. If we all choose to go our own way as opposed to the "good" or "bad" way, we shape ourselves into the person we are destined to become.
Until next post, I'm signing off wth my favorite clip from the movie. Enjoy!

Emily Ball



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