Who is more wicked? Thought provoking line in the movie.
Kincaid floats the question in the movie "Who is more wicked, he who kills evil motherfuckers, or he who protects them? What are your thoughts?
shareThey're both equally evil depending on context.
There's really no such thing as consequences of life without the nuance of context.
It's like someone saying, "Should cops kill bad guys?" and people instantly thinking, "Yes!" because they're bad guys. But what about cases of Les Miserables where a guy becomes a thief to steal to keep from starving?
The hermeneutics of the phrase relies on the interpretation of "Who" the people are being killed and "Who" the people are being protected.
Is it really wicked to protect a businessman? Of course not. But what if he sells drugs on the side to kids? Well, it's wicked if you know he does evil but still protect him, same thing with a sex trafficker, drug smuggler, or... a hitman.
Is it really wicked to kill sex traffickers, black market organ scalpers, or pornographic producers for pederasty? Some would argue that's for the courts to decide. Others would say less so.
But then what about all the grays in between? It's easy to point to the worst of humanity and justify that it's not wicked to kill such individuals, but most aren't as wicked as the most vile pieces of trash I listed above. Is the guy who gets paid to look out for cops just as bad as the guy who gets paid to steal kids off the street? Does he deserve to die if he doesn't know what's going on but takes the money for his own survival? What about the guy who steals cars for illegal border crossings? Is he deserving of death?
And vice versa, what about the man who protects the men who run such operations? Is he so wicked to mind his own affairs while safeguarding those engaged in wicked affairs?
There are so many different variables to the answer, but I would say that the man who protects them is only slightly less wicked for not taking a life using his own judgment.
Allowing people to use their own individual judgment to decide who deserves death gives way to every individual's interpretation of what they deem as evil, and what they deem deserves death.
Well, we can retain death and keep the criminal system running by simply returning capital punishment. But instead of making it 50 years appears process while using the least effective method of murder as US does now we could just use actual evidence we actually have the technology to collect now, such as DNA.
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