In the movie Thank you For Smoking, Nick Naylor, the main character, is a bad person. He was using his rhetoric skills in a bad way by lying to people on mass media. For example, Nick Naylor said that his company is opening an organization for cancer awareness surrounding the youth, but it was a lie. This is not the way he should have used his rhetoric skills and that is just one reason he is a bad person. Another reason Nick Naylor is a bad person is because he tried to get the youth to smoke cigarettes. He said, "if I can convince one kid on every flight to pick up smoking then I have paid for my trip." This is absolutely insane because he knows that cigarettes cause cancer and other issues.
Nick Naylor has high class persuasion skills that he could use in an industry. This makes us wonder why is he still in the cigarette business. So, is Nick Naylor doing this to pay his bills? or is does he just generally enjoy being a bad person?
Although that is a good point, does it really make Nick Naylor for doing his job and getting it done the only way he knows will work? He may be using peoples words against them to make himself look better, but it works for him.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your point of view, Nick Naylor was a very talented rhetor who used his skills for bad purposes. I think that Nick Naylor was a bad person because there are so many other things and so much good he could have done in the world if he would have used his skills as being a talented rhetoric speaker for other purposes instead of using it to promote cigarettes.
ReplyDeleteI personally believe Nick is not as bad of a person as you make him out to be, i believe he in the heat of the moment seems like a bad person but to me all he is doing is trying to convince people to think about the consequences of smoking on their own rater than following the government as if their word is the truth and the only truth. granted he may be using tactics that some may argue are unethical but to me that is a whole other debate.
ReplyDeleteI also believe that Nick was not a bad person. I think that his morals and ethics may be skewed but that does not make him a horrible person. Nick just uses his skills of rhetoric to promote the wrong side.
ReplyDeleteThinking about Nick Naylor and what he was makes me realize he is not a bad person. If you put yourself in his shoes you would realize its all about keeping your job. And to answer the last question, does he generally like being a bad person? I don't think he wants to be a bad person like I said its just part of his job as a lobbyist.
ReplyDeleteNick Naylor had an unbelievable skill. He was a master at what he did and he didn't take it for advantage. Although he is just using his amazing talent, he is using it to make society overall lesser. Therefore I do believe he is a bad person. He helps to promote a terrible company responsible for killing thousands. He is defending a bad company and that makes him a bad guy for doing so.
ReplyDeletei think nick was just using rhetoric and doing his job. That doesnt make him a bad person because you can see his relationship with his son and that doesnt make hum him bad. I think the people just straight up listening to nick and believing nick are the people that are worse for society because they dont understand rhetoric and the role of people in society.
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