Post 8 : Mortality by Tearra Lindsay

After watching Leave No Trace quite a few moments in the movie resonated with me but overall Will (Ben Foster) and his daughter Tom and their entire situation became a moral dilemma in itself. For a little background they sleep in sleeping bags, cuddling and making do with what they had for  warmth. They walk into town to buy groceries and it is later shown that Will ( the teenage girls father ) makes money selling prescription drugs to people living in a tent city on the outskirts of the park. The life and situation at hand for them was hard, but the love between them both as father and daughter was undeniably displayed. The decision making comes into play for Will mostly when a jogger spots Tom (the teenage girl) . Tom is put into a detention center for teenage girls, and Will is given a battery of psychological tests. I can’t quite say the  decisions that I would’ve made in this situation because I would’ve certainly probably leaned more towards staying with my father even though the struggles were indeed real .. they had a system and a unique way of living it might’ve been on the lower spectrum of morals and principles but it worked for them .  According to the 7 moral positions by Chaffee  I would have to say one and two aligns I would certainly follow my conscience and I also don’t know what I would do as well as seven which states I would do what’s best for everyone. And will and Tom’s case it was a battle between doing what they knew was morally correct and what was best for the both of them in sed situation.