Friday, October 22, 2004
And now...
On to the LotR analogy.
Urs Cipolat wants us to stop running the nuclear weapon labs. He then compares them to the Ring of Power in "Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings." (Yep, the director is the one who brings out the important moral issues, not the one who wrote the book)
Frodo faces two choices: either follow his conscience and throw the Ring into Mount Doom, or give in to his desire for power, keep the Ring, and perish. Frodo hesitates. In the end, it is only thanks to the moral purity of his simple helper, Sam, that he finds the strength to rid himself of the treacherous Ring.
Boy, Sam's going to be pissed that he's the "simple helper." However, I can't help but recall that it isn't Sam who convinces Frodo to ditch the ring, but rather it was Golem, using the persuasive technique of biting his fucking finger off.
Another important detail I might add is that by getting rid of the ring, Frodo destroys it. By getting rid of the labs, we just give them to someone else. The comparison would be "Frodo gives the ring to some other, probably more evil guy." Is that what we really want?
That's right. IDS. Lecturer.
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