Friday, September 25, 2015
Team Chris Kyle for America
Team America, the movie with puppets and was a
joking war movie. In the first couple minutes, the movie really
represents the problem with war when Americans invade, in my opinion. We
go into a country balls-a-blazin' straight for the enemy, not considering what
the cost is for the people whose land we are intruding on. I.e. In Team
America, they blew up the Eiffel Tower and this huge building, costing many
lives, just to say that they "got the bad guys". In my personal interpretation I felt as if them blowing that up was to illustrate how we don't really respect the damage we can possibly do as long as we neutralize the target, mission accomplished. Likewise,
Chris Kyle, who killed around 160 people as a Navy Seal, to protect his homeland, our
homeland, from the terrorists and people who "potentially" want to
harm America. In American Sniper, Chris after his first kill lost his
sense of who he is, the people he killed became almost target practice with
little moral repercussions. Intending Harm, by Shelly Kagan helps us relate
Chris Kyle’s actions by “if I kill the one to save the two, the death of the
one- although intrinsically evil- is on the balance of a good”. Chris Kyle
killed all of those civilians/terrorists/humans for the safety of his fellow
marines. Even though his kill count was
around 160, he aided in the saving of hundreds of marines, some he saved more
than once.
Labels:
American Sniper,
Team America,
War and Revolution
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I agree with you on the fact that Chris Kyle was doing his job. A soldier has a job just like anybody who works, theirs is just a little different. Where there might be the desk job that requires you to run to the store for supplies for your boss for the betterment of the company, the soldier might have to kill one man so save thousands of US citizens. We like to think that killing is a bad thing, which it is, but does killing a person whose life goal is to kill others such a bad thing? War exists and we cannot escape it. For as long as there are good people, there will also be bad ones out there as well.
ReplyDeleteMy counter question to yours is how do we know what the intent of the "bad" person is? Maybe they just intend to make a point about the way we treat others? Or maybe they just like carrying a AK-47 into heavy US military traffic? Sounds bizarre, but you don't always know what others are thinking or intending to do. Not everyone wants to kill us (on a good day).
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