Many years ago, I watched a movie about a Vietnam vet who, out of the blue, is contacted by a Vietnamese woman that was his lover when he was there. She is dying of cancer and wants him to take custody of their teenaged son, a child he had no idea existed.
Of course, he's married and has younger children, maybe elementary school aged, and his wife and other people aren't exactly happy about the situation. So it's not an easy decision for him to make.
At some point in the movie, he goes to discuss his dilemma with a friend of his and asks his friend "What would you do?" and his friend says "I would do the right thing and take custody of the boy. But unlike you, I own my own business. I'm not working for my father-in-law." In the 1982 film Cat People, the virginal main character learns she is essentially cursed. She learns that she is a werecat and having sex with a human will transform her into a panther and she can only resume human form by killing someone.
The loophole is she can have an incestuous relationship with her werecat -- and serial killer -- older brother with whom she has been recently reunited. This will allow her to remain in human form after sex.
She rejects the deal and the movie ends with her choosing to be the hand-fed captive panther of the zookeeper with whom she has fallen in love.
There is an episode of MASH where Major Winchester runs around paying locals ten cents on the dollar for their American scrip. The US is changing out the scrip and locals are being completely shafted.
They have no access to the exchange that will take place and the scrip they hold is about to become completely worthless. So the locals are willing to take this lousy deal even though they openly make faces about it because it's the only deal available to them.
He's the only game in town. They may be disgusted by his open and unapologetic profiteering, but they will take the deal anyway in order to have something.
When he gets to camp, Captain Hawkeye Pierce manages to block him from entering the now closed off base and also manages to take the large bag of scrip, screwing Winchester out of his profiteering profits. At the end of the show, Pierce gets to play hero by donating the money to some good cause or other -- orphanage, church or some such -- to right some kind of wrong, though I forget the exact details.
Screwing Major Winchester doesn't get the locals justice of any sort. Donating the money at the end so Pierce can play hero doesn't, in my eyes, actually make him some kind of good person.
If he wanted to actually be a good person, he could go around offering the locals twenty cents or fifty cents on the dollar for their scrip so they had a better deal available than the one Major Winchester was offering. But, no.
Doing something for the locals didn't make Pierce's radar AT ALL. Instead, he stole money from a man he already didn't like so he could call his petty assholery "a good deed."
I imagine most people watched that episode and cheered Pierce on and took glee in him playing Robin Hood and shafting Winchester. But two wrongs don't make a right, a mathematical formula far too few people appear to be familiar with.
Of course, he's married and has younger children, maybe elementary school aged, and his wife and other people aren't exactly happy about the situation. So it's not an easy decision for him to make.
At some point in the movie, he goes to discuss his dilemma with a friend of his and asks his friend "What would you do?" and his friend says "I would do the right thing and take custody of the boy. But unlike you, I own my own business. I'm not working for my father-in-law." In the 1982 film Cat People, the virginal main character learns she is essentially cursed. She learns that she is a werecat and having sex with a human will transform her into a panther and she can only resume human form by killing someone.
The loophole is she can have an incestuous relationship with her werecat -- and serial killer -- older brother with whom she has been recently reunited. This will allow her to remain in human form after sex.
She rejects the deal and the movie ends with her choosing to be the hand-fed captive panther of the zookeeper with whom she has fallen in love.
There is an episode of MASH where Major Winchester runs around paying locals ten cents on the dollar for their American scrip. The US is changing out the scrip and locals are being completely shafted.
They have no access to the exchange that will take place and the scrip they hold is about to become completely worthless. So the locals are willing to take this lousy deal even though they openly make faces about it because it's the only deal available to them.
He's the only game in town. They may be disgusted by his open and unapologetic profiteering, but they will take the deal anyway in order to have something.
When he gets to camp, Captain Hawkeye Pierce manages to block him from entering the now closed off base and also manages to take the large bag of scrip, screwing Winchester out of his profiteering profits. At the end of the show, Pierce gets to play hero by donating the money to some good cause or other -- orphanage, church or some such -- to right some kind of wrong, though I forget the exact details.
Screwing Major Winchester doesn't get the locals justice of any sort. Donating the money at the end so Pierce can play hero doesn't, in my eyes, actually make him some kind of good person.
If he wanted to actually be a good person, he could go around offering the locals twenty cents or fifty cents on the dollar for their scrip so they had a better deal available than the one Major Winchester was offering. But, no.
Doing something for the locals didn't make Pierce's radar AT ALL. Instead, he stole money from a man he already didn't like so he could call his petty assholery "a good deed."
I imagine most people watched that episode and cheered Pierce on and took glee in him playing Robin Hood and shafting Winchester. But two wrongs don't make a right, a mathematical formula far too few people appear to be familiar with.