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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2013 6:24:30 GMT -5
I love how our weekly rewatches inspire always new debates and questions. Yesterday, it just came to my mind for the first time that Maddie's and David's attitudes toward the demand of the client are juxtaposed to their respective religious beliefs (or lack thereof): David as a Catholic thinks the old man has the right to decide when and how his life should end, despite the Catholic church blaming suicide as a mortal sin. Maddie, on the other hand, who declared to be an atheist, believes the client has no right to take his own life. Why is that, what do you think? And does it surprise you?
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Post by Addison's girl on Jul 21, 2013 10:12:23 GMT -5
I don't think this had anything to do with religious beliefs or lack of. My feeling is that David saw himself in the old man's shoes someday and that frightened him. I think that David wanted to allow the old man to die in peace because that is what he would want for himself. I mean David Addison without being able to living life his way would prefer to die with dignity.
Maddie didn't think that it was morally correct for anyone to help the old man die. Morals and religious beliefs are not the same thing.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2013 4:34:44 GMT -5
I know that of course and I absolutely agree about David's motivation. I just meant that it's more likely for a religious person to condemn suicide because especially the Roman Catholic church sees it as a mortal sin - religious beliefs very often influence people's morals (the deeper a person's religiosity is the stronger is the influence usually). That's what my question was about.
But I think Maddie didn't only believe it was morally not correct for anyone to help the old man die, I perceived it that she thought even the old man himself didn't have the right to decide about the end of his life.
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Post by Addison's girl on Jul 22, 2013 8:53:06 GMT -5
Yes the Catholic church does believe that suicide is a mortal sin but I doubt David was thinking about the church and its beliefs. And I don't know what Maddie was thinking. If she was so against the idea why didn't she cal the cops like David suggested? Was it just that she didn't want Blue Moon involved in such a sticky situation?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2013 3:10:17 GMT -5
No, David wasn't thinking of the church of course. The point I was trying to make is that obviously, being raised as a Catholic hadn't affected him that much; at least he is not a person to blindly follow any ideology - he always listened to his own conscience.
Well Maddie says what she thinks about it: she says it's wrong. But I don't think that Maddie had the welfare of the agency on her mind for one minute when she kept David's whereabouts from the police. David was the only thing she tried to protect.
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Post by Addison's girl on Jul 24, 2013 8:42:47 GMT -5
Oh of course when David was in trouble she didn't give the agency a thought!!!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2013 2:43:29 GMT -5
Yes, it was the same in BMOMS - she just left to follow him to NY and never gave a thought about the second appointment with the client!!
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Post by Addison's girl on Jul 26, 2013 8:05:25 GMT -5
Yep. He came before Blue Moon.
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