While watching something that tugs at your heart as much as the movie "Thank you for Smoking" most people contemplate of whether or not what Nick Naylor is doing if right. Even though it is a natural reaction to go to that place in your heart we should try to avoid our first instinct and should try to be higher as a people. Often times you will get a feeling about something and this should be how you judge all of your decisions in life and what to think about and to go for in life. If you are always trying to have morality then you are doing it wrong. Watch the video down below about morality too if you need a clearer definition of what I am speaking about.
Morality in life is what we should strive for. We should all try to be good people, but often times the most beautiful thoughts come from the darkest thoughts and they are often intertwined. Throughout this movie I think we think are too concerned with who Nick Naylor is as a person when we should be fine with whatever he does because he, himself accepts his occupation. We also should stop judging other people on what they do in order to get by. Even though it does seem like Nick Naylor enjoys his job throughout the movie it can be interpreted that a big reason why he has a job like this is money and he refers to the money as "paying his mortgage."
Overall the overarching theme of this blog is that morality doesn't matter and feeling does. Even though we should always strive to be better people we are all not. I mean come on we are all human and think bad thoughts and do bad things. Despite this we still as a race do very good to compensate for the bad. What do you think about these topics? I would like to hear others sides to this idea and know if I am the only one who thinks this way. Give me your opinion how much morality matters and whether or not we should just go off "feeling" as I like to say.
In my opinion, morality matters a great deal more than "feeling". Obviously as humans, our thoughts and feelings aren't always going to be made of rainbows and sunshine and that is okay. Morality however, keeps us in check and brings us back to our roots and simple responsibility of what is right versus what is wrong. Some people aren't strong enough or have some sort of inner issue to battlee that keeps them from seeing morality because there definitely are peple in the world that choose murder and crime over peace. Humans are supposed to experience all feelings, positive or negative, that is what separates us from robots. There will never be a perfect world with no violence or bad thoughts, but I think overall the good in the human race does outweigh the bad due to morality.
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