White Bear

The video that we watched on Monday was very unclear at first, but at the same time very disturbing.  White Bear showed a woman get tortured mentally and somewhat physically while spectators looked on and watched.  At first, I was not sure what was going on.  I thought that the movie was very odd and off putting, that's for sure!  However, as the movie continued to go on, we saw why the woman was being put through everything she was dealing with.  She had done the same things to children!  The movie shows the woman being forced to learn about what she had done, but as soon as the torturing was over and she knew why she was being punished, they wiped her memory.  For this woman, every day is the same thing, but she has no memory of what she did or who she even is every day when she wakes up.  I was very disturbed by this movie, and thought about it almost the entire day.  The question Ms. Johnson asked at the end of class that day was, “Was this moral, and was this just?”  I would have to say no to both of these questions.  First of all, I completely realize that what the woman did to the children was not moral.  However, that does not make doing the same thing to her moral, either.  There are plenty of ways they could have punished her, and this was not the best route to take in my opinion.  I do not think this was just for a few reasons.  Wiping the woman’s memory gives her no reason to go through any of what she experiences.  Having to go through that every day is not just.  If that was the best route to take for her punishment, once would be more than enough.  Lastly, she has no way of making up for what she did because she wakes up every day with no memory.  To cap it off, I want to say thank you to Ms. Johnson for knowing how to start the Monday of Thanksgiving week with a bang!