Sunday, April 8, 2018
NOT an eye for an eye.
In the episode, "White Bear," a female and her fiancé are convicted of kidnapping and abducting a little girl. The finance was the person who killed the girl but the woman videoed the whole thing on her phone instead of helping. As a result, the man hung himself and the female was taken to a "justice center" where her memory was erased everyday and she was tortured. This "eye for an eye" philosophical outlook on what justice is is not ok. White Bear is the name of the place where the female is taken to go through the simulation and it is open to the public so that they can watch and even participate. I think that the people involved in any aspect of this "theme park" are just as twisted as the people who originally committed the crime. I was able to see how the Black Mirror episode "Be Right Back" could potentially be in our future but I do not see any part of "White Bear" integrating within our justice system. I think that our current justice system is ineffective as it is. The amount of people in jail in the Unite States is way higher than any other country. I think this is for the most part because of how many people we put in jails and prisons rather than rehabilitation programs. I understand that those programs are expensive but how it is just to have, for instance, drug addicts thrown in high security prisons with no medical help to rid their addiction. Instead of learning to live without, they are put in confinement and end up going crazy. But, back to White Bear. I found the episode extremely disturbing for many reasons. One, it is hypocritical to be against the criminal act but then turn around and be a part of it yourself. Just as people hate her for standing by and videoing the little girl, they are literally doing the same thing in the theme park. I just don't understand how that's considered justice. I think that it is important for people to be able to forgive someone of a criminal act but no necessarily forget. She definitely deserves to be punished and in prison but she does not deserve to have her whole identity erased and tortured for days on end. I do not think that there will be anything in the future like White Bear.
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I entirely agree, and this was my point in my post. The punishment is inhumane, and it doesn't really see to it that she gets to reflect on what she did and reform like jail is supposed to. The pain she endures is entirely wasted since she has no clue what she's done up until the end. She has to live through it for a brief time and then she forgets. So she is being punished, but she forgets it every time, so what's the point?
I share your opinion of how unjust of a punishment. I agree that she does need to be punished and suffer in prison, but being tortured every day is not the right way to go about punish her. The civilians are hypocritical as they are idly standing by videoing, just as she did. It is impossible to teach someone a lesson if you don't let them learn, i.e.: wiping their memory daily.
I think it is super interesting and I agree with your statement about how our justice system would be better if people were sent to rehab centers rather than jails, which are already overpopulated. I agree with your statement about how those who are watching this woman be treated cruelly are acting just as she did when she recorded the murder of the child. You had some super interesting points about this episode that I found really insightful.
In my opinion, what happened to Victoria in white bear was definitely not justice. While she does deserve to suffer for her crimes, no human being should be put through 31 days of pure torture. I'm a strong believer in rehabilitative punishment. Victoria should understand what she did wrong, why shes being punished, and how her crime affected others. In white bear, victoria didn't get a chance to learn anything because her memory was being erased everyday.
The fact that these people are erasing her mind over and over again is one of the main parts bothering me. True, what they are doing is indeed hypocritical and unjust, it's not something that they should be doing. There are people out in the world who have done horrendous acts that were 20 times as worse as what she did. People are just punishing a woman who doesn't even know who she is or what she has done. She practically another person. These people just as much a sadist as she, and they are just feeding on her madness.
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