Ketevan Chochishvili

Summary

chose the movie Moonlight. The character Chiron. There are multiple moral dilemmas in the movie. One that Chiron is facing is between saving himself and being a good human (before hitting a boy with a chair). The second dilemma he is having is between watching his mother suffer or giving her money with his own hands for drugs. I believe the main dilemma in the movie is within Cirone between trying to survive the environment without turning into a tumbled person and surviving that way.

The decision I would make in this situation would be to get a job and save as much money as possible to move out at 18. I would also start researching and training to help myself survive in this situation.

I based my decision on my conscience and whatever is best for everyone.
1. I would follow my conscience.
If I followed my conscience, I would take all the bullying and concentrate on making myself successful and strong so I could get revenge in the future.

2. I don’t know what I would do.
If I did not know what to do, then I would try researching, starting online and ending with libraries, about psychology and every useful piece of information I could find connected to my situation before making a decision.

3. I would do whatever would improve my situation.
If I did whatever would improve my situation, and if I were in that neighborhood and environment, I would try to give myself as many options as possible. I would try to get embarrassing and private information or pictures about my bullies and their families. I might have even tried to befriend their family members if possible to get more information about them and their fears. I would also research different methods in martial arts and try to learn them. I would research different methods of manipulating people and get to know them by observing them so I could use it them against them. I would get to know who they love and respect the most and try to come up with plans on how to use that person’s safety to make them back off. If nothing worked, I would try to get drugs and pretend to give them up to them in an attempt to hook them up and gradually change the drugs to more and more harmful ones. If they refused or showed no interest, I would try to create situations that would get them depressed enough that they would be tempted to do so (examples can be if I found out their partner was cheating, their family member had an affair, some secret, or I had some incriminating information about them, I would spread rumors so they would be in the spotlight and therefore miserable). I would try to get them in legally dangerous situations if unsuccessful I would try to bate them into beating or hurting me and secretly record it and take it to the police as well as other recordings showing them using drugs, mistreating other people, or talking about suspicious and violent topics. I would also try to turn them against each other.

4. I would do what God or the Scriptures say is right.
I would give up because it is a sin to hurt another person back even if they are hurting you.

I would do whatever made me happy.
I might have done it or not but I am aware that goal is the most powerful thing a person can have in this situation so I would dedicate myself to becoming rich so in a long run I would not even have to think about it and I would get other people to take care of the situation for me while I would have moved on.I would take revenge on them years later in a legal way. I would also have private investigators follow them every day and night, getting any information they could use against them legally or otherwise. I would drive them mad by every minor inconvenience like if are they speeding my privet investigator will call the police on them or if are they getting illegal drugs they will be caught. They parked in the wrong place next thing they know their car is getting taken away and I would tell my investigators to give breaks in between so they do not start acting" good "all the time.I would also open up free schools for children who snuggle with bullying with professionals teaching them how to survive and providing all the help and guidance.

I would follow the advice of an authority figure.
If I followed the advice of an authority figure, I would eventually get bullied even more for being a" snitch".The school system does not protect kids like they are supposed to and it is the same in the movie as well.

I would do what’s best for everyone.
If I would do what’s best for everyone, it would probably be to move away, but that is not possible for the character, so I guess I will drop out of school and work until the age of 18, so I can move soon. I would still get chased outside and might have also been forced by law to go back but I would at least try.

I am honestly unsure about my moral stand.I believe I do have morals but also logic so I tend to balance them and do not follow ether one of them blindly and at the end of the day it is okey to cross the line of high morals as well as choose the moral path in a unfit situation depending on the circumstances.