Necessary Evil

Presentation : What about necessary evil ?

    Introduction:

1) What to think about it?        

      A) Why did I choose this picture?

I chose this picture because it makes us think about our free will and about the laws we make for ourselves. In did, when we see this, we are like "Yes he s right he s a monster but he kills other monsters, the real ones". He is an antihero but he can be considering as a modern hero, a real one not a fake and illusionary perfect comic book hero. This picture is amazing because it upsets the viewer mind and make him redefined his own values and ideas about the laws, the difference between right and wrong for at least one second.

      B) Personal opinion 

To my mind, we have a contradictory character because he’s making the actions of a sadistic vigilante but in his thoughts he’s just following his code and instincts. He’s not the instrument of guilt or empathy but by the need to kill.  It’s dangerous because someone without empathy, a psychotic monster can’t be the judge the jury and the executioner as tolerable what he’s doing can be consider.

2) Necessary Evil

      A) Do we need this?

In the show we see that a lot of monsters are not arrested by the justice. So this is the question, we forbid the monsters, but isn’t this one an exception, because he makes the world a better and safer place for people? Most of the time we clearly see that he catches the killers faster than the police and leads them sometimes on false leads! So do we really need his killer skills or maybe more his investigations and instincts skills in service of the justice and not to satisfy his personal monsters addiction.
In a way the author denounces how the American justice can be negligent and so easily fooled but also that the appearances are not always real.

      B) What the limits are?

The motto follows the same idea that the black panthers had. They would achieve what they want by any means necessary. And that’s why we have laws to not be the subject of our evil side, to be lead in our code and our actions. Some of us have their own code. This is the freewill. This code cannot interfere with others; if it does this person become an outlaw. One interested point of view of the show is that a monster can be born like this as Dexter was, born in blood. It feels like they just have to learn how to embrace their evil side by choosing the better of the worst sides. This picture lights the vale between right and wrong. And to be honest it is difficult to follow the common and proper sense when we look at it. It is like picturing the death penalty debate in a more radical way. We can say that one man, one monster cannot decide on his own why these men have to be kill. It’s like asking to a thief to be the security official of a bank. It’s not fair it’s not justice, a monster cannot be trusted. But in a way it could be a necessary evil for the monsters who escape justice. It couldn’t be tolerable but understandable.

To conclude we can say that monsters are always a bad thing but what they do isn’t automatically.

Lexique :

Blood = sang
evil = mal
death penalty = peine de mort
a thief = un voleur
medical examiner = médecin légiste
to trust = avoir confiance
security official = responsible de la sécurité

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