In the disturbing episode "White Bear" a woman wakes up to her memory vague and lacking in detail. She has no identity, no knowledge, nor idea what and who she is. After roaming around, she finds herself in a dire situation being chased by mad people at same time other people recording her with electronic phones. The situation is very stressful since it is life and death. The major themes in this episode is identity and justice.
Identity is incorporated in the theory of Leibniz's Law (theory of the German polymath and philosopher) which is "If a and b are the same thing, then the property of a is the property of b." To avoid informal fallacies we stress "exact memory" more so than "strict memory." Identity in the episode concerns the memory of the punished criminal who had guilty consciousness (mens rea) of the murder of a 6 year old girl. As punishment for her crime, she is videotaped and her trust is broken for the entertainment of an audience. I was horrified by the psychological tortue of the criminal which I think should have been carried out by Justice not vengeance.
Her cross-temporal identity can be questioned if her memory was constructed or if it was "quasi-memory" however her breakdown suggest she had guilt for the crime in her revelation. For if the purpose of justice is to inflict unusual and cruel punishment upon a criminal, then it would infringe our granted liberties and rights of human beings and even the culpable; our liberties and rights grant us our humanity which is freedom, rationality, and autonomy. Justice thus ought to be in pursuant to rectify the wrong committed by the criminal by educating the wrong he/she, or both, committed hence guilt of consciousness. I stress that rehabilitation and repentance, the acknowledgement of the wrong committed, to be the course of action regarding the criminality of the offender or incarcerated.
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