When Jeff was hesitating to agree to Darkenfloxx Rachel, Abnesti showed him her profile, and because Jeff was able to justify in his head that she was bad, he didn't feel quite as bad. But right at the end when he had just Darklenfloxxed himself and was supposedly dead, he saw Rogan and Keith along with a few others and started to rethink them as moral beings. I think he was also trying to explain his own actions that he was ashamed of. At first when he's asking if people were destined to be bad from the second they were born his tone is very doubtful. But, even after he says that people don't desire to kill as children, he's still saying that "their crooked destinies had lain dormant within them." That seems to be going back to the idea that people are on a track that they are put on at birth. It doesn't leave a lot of hope for humans to be able determine their own paths.
While Jeff seems to think that environmental factors bring out the evil that's been sitting dormant inside people I just don't agree with that. I don't believe that a baby has an underlying desire or tendency to kill or steal. I think that people have control over their actions and the ability to decide how to act on their beliefs and morals.
I think Jeff's belief is also evident in the thought he had right before he died - that he would "never kill again". He seems to believe that the only escape from his predetermined tendency to kill was death, and it may have been a result of the way the criminals in the story were completely stripped of their freedom and not treated as people who could be rehabilitated.
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ReplyDeleteExactly! People have control over their emotions only until Abnesti or someone comes along and pumps them full of a crazy chemical. What will become of humanity if this becomes the norm? It's a scary thought.
ReplyDeleteIt's not always someone crazy pumping him full of chemicals that mess with his emotions though. He says he is drunk when he commits the murder that lands him in Spiderhead. In that case he was the one pumping himself full of chemicals that caused him to lose his temper more easily than he would have had he been sober.
DeleteExactly! People have control over their emotions only until Abnesti or someone comes along and pumps them full of a crazy chemical. What will become of humanity if this becomes the norm? It's a scary thought.
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