To choose to be a good-deed-robot, to decide to let someone else define what is "good", to let someone else program your actions, to let someone else take the responsibility for your own actions, that is corruption.
Yes! And this is what confuses me so much, because it's not like in the movies the characters ever make a different choice. Frodo still takes the ring, Sam still goes with Frodo, Boromir still tries to take the ring and repents, Merry and Pippin still pledge alliegance to Rohan and Gondor, Faramir still lets the ring go, the Ents still go to war. The problems people have don't ahve to do with the characters making different choices, but with the suggestion that they could have ever done something different. To me that would rob the story of all meaning, if their choices were easy. What's the point of aspiring to be someone who never has to struggle to do the right thing? Aspiring to be someone who does the right thing is far more valuable.
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Date: 2004-04-04 06:12 pm (UTC)Yes! And this is what confuses me so much, because it's not like in the movies the characters ever make a different choice. Frodo still takes the ring, Sam still goes with Frodo, Boromir still tries to take the ring and repents, Merry and Pippin still pledge alliegance to Rohan and Gondor, Faramir still lets the ring go, the Ents still go to war. The problems people have don't ahve to do with the characters making different choices, but with the suggestion that they could have ever done something different. To me that would rob the story of all meaning, if their choices were easy. What's the point of aspiring to be someone who never has to struggle to do the right thing? Aspiring to be someone who does the right thing is far more valuable.