The utilitarians are bad guys or cold, unfeeling aliens. Movies tend to celebrate characters who refuse to accept utilitarian tradeoffs and say "no, I won't let anyone die".
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So Jonathan Kent is such a cold calculating utilitarian that he would allow a schoolbus full of children to drown and sacrifice his own life for the probability of saving future lives. Not to keep Clark safe for his own good, but for the sake of the people he will save in the future. That he has a purpose to for fill as does she. She knows of Clark Kents real Identity Kal-El the first natural born from Krypton. As a child she was sent to Earth to one day to for fill her fate. Rosalie is angel and knows how it feels to be different.
He gives his own life to protect Clark's secret. Fanfiction Romance Man Of Steel Superman Love Story Angel Man Steel. He and Clark look at each other and Clark indicates he is going to rush out to save him, but Jonathan motions to him to stop with his hand and allows himself to be swallowed by the tornado. Jonathan gets momentarily caught and is left standing there with the tornado about to bear down upon him. All three Kents are caught in their car in a tornado and Martha and Clark wait under an overpass with a crowd of people as Jonathan rushes back out onto the highway to save the family dog who was left in the car (don't worry, the dog makes it). Later, Pa Kent's utilitarianism is put to an even greater test, and in this time he does not waiver. And his even considering that letting the children die was best is far more utilitarian of a sentiment than you're likely to see out of a non-alien, non-bad guy in a movie. And quite frankly the way Kevin Costner delivered the "maybe" it sounded a lot like an implied "yes" to me. This is technically not a "yes", but it is pretty close. Jonathan Kent: You have to keep this side of yourself a secret.Ĭlark Kent: What was I supposed to do? Let them die? Jonathan Kent suggests that perhaps Clark should have embraced the cold, calculating utilitarian position: This has placed Clark in something of a trolley problem: allow the children in front of him to die to possibly save many more people in the future, or save them and risk that he will be exposed and will never be able to save so man in the future as Superman. First is when young Clark saves a schoolbus full of his classmates. But on two occasions he really shows he means it, and does so in the kind of harsh utilitarian way that is usually reserved for the bad guy or at least an alien in a film. Perhaps you are skeptical and think Jonathan Kent merely wishes to not lose his son, and you couldn't be blamed for not taking Pa Kent's utilitarian rhetoric seriously.
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