Why was that guy chosen for sloth? He was a drug dealer. While not a noble profession, it is hardly a job for the lazy. It takes a certain amount of initiative to get off the couch and deal drugs. Wouldn’t some trust fund siphoning layabout have been a better choice? Someone who didn’t make their money thru their own actions?
sharepretty good comment , can't say i disagree , because in the imagination of people drug dealers make tons of money but i guess it's only guys on top of the pyramid , the guys lower down don't make that much and do have to work and take risks.
however to become a trust fund siphoning layabout you also have to work hard otherwise if it was that easy we would all be multi-millionaire.
A lot of trust fund siphoning layabouts are born into wealth and just live off their parents or grandparents money.
shareyes true also, and i would definitely love to be one of them but then that's life.
shareThat's what I inferred too, that the trust-fund layabout was someone who'd inherited their money and thus never had to work in the first place, but, take it from me, one doesn't have to have been born rich or even middle-class, to be a bum (although in my case, that's mostly down to social anxiety because I used to be a VERY hard-worker).
Still, like the fat guy and even the vain model, I'm not sure what harm the spoiled rich kid would be doing the rest of society just from being lazy.
But, the harm they might do, or not, was not the point to the killer. He was apparently a by-the-book Christian of a special sort. He may have also been offended by people breaking any of the rules of Leviticus, but he chose, for his "sermon" a not-strictly-Biblical, but nonetheless very old, Christian doctrine. The exemplars chosen needed only to be sinful in his eyes and embody, in some notable way, the sin they were being murdered for.
Very true. John Doe was a sanctimonious prick, in addition to beng a murderer, and he attacked 'sinners' who weren't necessarily doing extensive harm to others, in addition to more destructive individuals, like the drug-dealing pedarest and the greedy lawyer (although even the latter was arguably fulfilling a duty in a democratic/liberal society in which every individual is, quite rightly, entitled to representation). That said, there was a limited graphic novel series that went further into the background of each of Doe's victims, which further elaborated on their less sympathetic nature and behaviour (for instance, 'Pride' was portrayed as an entitled 'bitchy' type who mistreated her colleagues in the modelling industry).
shareDepends what they are slinging, but I'd say an active street level dealer should make $1-2k a week. They blow it as fast as they make it, but i knew a guy who sold coke back in the day, and he bought a new Corvette with cash. It took him less than a year to save for it.
shareHe need to have a criminal record so that the prints could find a match
shareWasn’t he also a child molester? Maybe John Doe’s point was that the guy could have done something productive with his life yet chose not to?????
shareIt was also mentioned that Victor had a strict religious upbringing from his parents, but obviously he went in the opposite direction. To someone like Doe that would be backsliding: so much potential in his background to go in the right direction & opting for the quick easy route would be seen as sloth by Doe.
shareYou can deal drugs sitting on your couch all day, people will just come to you.
But the religious sin of sloth isn't just laziness, it's also apathy or an indifference to being morally good.
It would probably be hard to depict, but I can see sloth manifesting at its worst with respect to say a political leader (and, no, I'm not going to be explicitly partisan here, but you can all think of people who fit the bill), who refuses to do any research/learn from their advisers, and just does what is politically convenient or populist. They's examples of people whose laziness (in this case intellectual laziness) can have genuinely dangerous effects on others, rather than simply their own life.
shareHe wasn't just a drug dealer. He was a frickin PEDEREST.
I'd say his worst sins had NOTHING to do with being lazy. In fact, it might have been a good thing for all of society if he'd been *lazier*.
As a lazy bum, I take offence that MY own sin is associated with a lowlife drug-dealer/child molester. John Doe should have come after *me*.