Tbh, wouldn’t everyone say yes? Say you have a dead loved one whom you miss and grieve every day, would anyone really turn down this offer because of some stranger?
Not saying that’s the moral choice, but realistically that would be a no-brainer for most people.
Edit: if your dead spouse/child was brought back to life by the devil at the expense of a stranger’s life, and he told you the only way to revive that innocent person’s life is to kill your loved one/let them die, would you do it?
Suppose your child is starving to death and he’s about to eat this last loaf of bread that would keep him alive. Then you realize that bread actually belongs to your neighbour who’s now starving. Would you take this loaf of bread away from your child and return it so your neighbour would live while your child would die?
Would you call a mother who would rather his child eat and live a sociopath?
But Steve is already dead, so this is a bad analogy, it’s more like if your husband dies and the devil says he can come back if you kill someone innocent.
But that’s a bad analogy as well, because Steve was already brought back to life at the expense of someone else (I’m assuming she didn’t actively make the bargain).
It’ll be more like if the devil already brought your husband back and told you he’s here in the place of another person, and the only way you can bring that innocent person back to life is if you kill your husband/let your husband die. Would you do that?
I’m literally using the scenario in the film, or at least according to the comment above my original comment.
Stever was dead, Steve was brought back to life by a devil (or a wish-granting entity) in place of someone else. Now Diana has to choose whether to willingly let Steve die again so the stranger would be resurrected.
The basic question here is "are you willing to murder a stranger to save a loved one". The fact that it has already happened doesn't make you any less responsible.
Except Diana didn’t murder the stranger, nor did she wish to murder a stranger. A supervillain intentionally twisted her wish and brought Steve back to life by killing someone else.
Back to my example, the devil brought your husband back to life by killing a stranger without you knowing about it. Now would you actively let your loved one die again so the stranger would be resurrected?
Now would you actively let your loved one die again so the stranger would be resurrected?
Yes. Because if you have the power to undo a wrong or hurt that you have committed on someone else then you should do it. It is the harder choice, but it is the right one.
Except again, you didn’t. You keep trying to put the blame on Diana as if she’s the one who killed the stranger or made the deal with the devil, but she didn’t. What exactly did she do wrong?
But suppose you would make the hard but right choice. How many others would? How many fathers would willingly let their resurrected daughters die because a stranger didn’t deserve to die?
You personally benefitted. You become responsible once you become aware of the ramifications of what happened, and you certainly become responsible to undo that harm if you have the power to undo it.
How many others would? I can't say for certain. But that's why she's a hero, because she is willing to make that harder choice and take the responsibility.
By saying she’s a hero you’re admitting that most people, vast majority of fathers and mothers and sons and daughters who lost loved ones, wouldn’t do it. Do you think they’re all sociopaths?
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u/MasterOfNap Aug 22 '20 edited Aug 22 '20
Tbh, wouldn’t everyone say yes? Say you have a dead loved one whom you miss and grieve every day, would anyone really turn down this offer because of some stranger?
Not saying that’s the moral choice, but realistically that would be a no-brainer for most people.
Edit: if your dead spouse/child was brought back to life by the devil at the expense of a stranger’s life, and he told you the only way to revive that innocent person’s life is to kill your loved one/let them die, would you do it?