Maybe I just like sub movies too much, but I thought this was pretty damn good. Things get pretty interesting when questions are raised about whether some of the difficult choices that Ronnie makes as a captain might be based more on self-interest than the good of his sailors or the Navy. Ronnie's response is twofold: (i) he claims that his critics are projecting their own inability to act on more than self-absorbed feeling onto him, and (ii) he starts to doubt his own ability to act on more than self-absorbed feeling. Gonna use this for ethics class. (Other, related topics that come up include: whether an action benefiting me shows that it's self-interested, the usefulness (or lack thereof) of ethical principles, the distinction between judgment and feeling.)
This movie reinforces my sense that sub movies are all about the structure of good judgment.
Saturday, October 18, 2008
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Nurse in Times Square war photo reunites with Navy :D
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