Ethical Critique: Untraceable

Ethical Critique: Untraceable

What is a standard definition of ethic? It may vary as much as people's life-styles and their principles of life. Perhaps there might be no such thing as true ethical behavior, for ethics correlates with the environment in which one lives in. For example, for people who live in countries like Africa or Asia, their beliefs of an ethic might not be the same beliefs that we believe in America. Although one’s morality might be an opposite of others’ morality, the world that we live in does not really accept others’ ideology. In today's society, we are in a huge dilemma of judging what is right or wrong; if one has different philosophy of a morality, people would unquestionably deny their idea of a morality. While watching the film Untraceable, a flood of thoughts about the ethical behaviors coursed through my mind. In this film, the killwithme.com's owner, Owen Reilly, is a very unstable, techno-prodigy man who starts by torturing kittens but ends with series of homicides. He uploads these unethical and vicious videos to his website and finds his own pleasure from it.
While watching the movie, I thought about the ethical question of what we've become, mere savage monsters that simply enjoy watching other’s suffer. In my point of view, Reilly’s actions and behaviors were far from my definition of an ethical person. However, justification can be brought upon the fact that his mental stability did not seem very stable throughout the movie; in his demented view, torturing kittens and committing homicides might not be immoral. As I mentioned before, he is very mentally unstable, so he does not have a very clear idea of what is right or wrong. To him, torturing and killing may be righteous things to do, which makes him into thinking that the unethical things are ethical. On the other hand, when I move on to Marsh's perspective of ethic, it does not differ much with common people’s idea of ethics. In addition, I believed that those of who are entering the website...

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