Beliefs, morals and doing the right thing

Good morning!

This morning I am finally watching the last episode of Trigun. It's a Japanese anime but it's dubbed in English.

In the story the main character, Vash, always tries to stick to his moral that no one deserves to die no matter what. And although he has the power to end life (he's kind of powerful) and he wields a gun and usually has the option of doing it, he never does and he even has scars on his body due to the damage inflicted on himself. He mainly learned all he knows from a woman named Rem, a woman who watched over him and his twin brother (Knives) when they were younger. Knives began to have a different view on life. He actually wants to end the whole human race after he found out that the humans experimented on a plant (what Vash and his brother are) and she died. 

Throughout the series the character is always placed in situations where he tries to do the right thing. Which is never kill anyone. He even hates to see someone kill another.

Anyways, in the episode before the final one is actually had to kill someone in order to save two people he cares about. 

It's a very tough thing when a situation calls for a quick decision that may be against one's morals or beliefs. And sometimes we contradict ourselves when we say one thing but behave in another. 

In the episode, the man he killed was a man named Legato. Legato has the ability to control people and get inside of their head. He had a bunch of townspeople holding weapons to the two girls Vash saved because if he didn't the townspeople would kill them. 

This is one reason why I like this show. I saw it once before and I"m watching it again after all these years. 

It reminds me of this show called The Colony. The show is mainly about a group of people (I think about 6) who are from different working backgrounds, such as a teacher, an engineer etc. and they all live in a post apocalyptic city and try to live off what they can find or salvage. 

At first I think it didn't seem real to them, but they stayed in this situation for about 6 months I believe. During the experiment there would be people trying to rob them of their resources to the point where they would have to do what they can in order to survive.

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Once they didn't have much food so  the men of the group started hunting for rats. One man who helped swore he wouldn't eat meat. But he ate the rat due to the lack of protein. They were living only off of canned food and they were lacking a lot of the nutrients we are often blessed with. Oh! Also they stayed in a warehouse. That was their safehouse. 

I think beliefs are suppose to change. Kind of like with our bodies. They change and yet we don't think it's wrong. I'm not saying it's bad to have beliefs, but something we hold on to them so strongly, even to the point of breaking. 

For example, if a person believes that love is not blind, it's okay for them to start to believe love can indeed make them blind. 

Is it a contradicting statement. In my opinion it's not. Because the person has admitted that their previous belief wasn't exactly right for them. Then it begs the question, what is right and wrong? Many situations in life call for different things. And the outcome is based on our choices.

I'm actually writing a story about this concept. I'll write about it in my next blog.

Anyways, I think this is something to keep in mind.

Personally, when a situation calls for a quick choice, I feel it's best to try to make the choice that gives the best outcome. Which means limited amount of harm to others, limited damage. And if possible only wound the person to the point where they can't commit the crime. It sounds harsh, but a man who shots a gun, either remove the gun or remove his trigger fingers. Things such as this. It's less extreme than death.

I feel that sometimes police officers are placed in situation where they have to make quick decision. Even in situations where their is an incident (accident) that calls for a quick decision.

Recently the video games I have played have these kinds of situations in them lol I just thought about it. In the game the player would have to choose between what they think is right or wrong and it effects the other characters in the story.So as the player you could lose friends, or have to fight multiple enemies for not killing a certain target. 

I feel we are embedded with the correct answer. Do we act on our natural human instinct? We are given this for a reason right. But what sets us apart from just acting on impulse if our ability to rationalize or asset the situation. And yet sometimes things happen so quickly to the point where we don't have time think. 

Being calm can possibly help. Wow! So many things to question in this.

But I have to go now.

Mon