I liked the episode okay, but I think it raised many ethical questions. Already a thread has been started regarding John's behavior, but what about Carson. Wasn't he a doctor once? Wasn't he responsible for saving lives?
I am very disturbed by the coldness of his actions. A healer should look for ways to save, not to destroy. The fact that he destroyed the Wraith's medical data is upsetting enough - who knows what good it could have brought to human and Wraith alike. In this, Carson reminded me of an American doctor in Iraq who only saves Americans, and not wounded Iraqis. If we heard of such a thing on the news, we'd be outraged - a doctor is supposed to save hero and criminal alike - he is not supposed to make moral decisions of who lives, and who dies.
So, Carson has turned into a bringer of death. I knew this long before the episode (it was a give that Michael have treated him with the hoffan drug), but to see him being so ruthless about it…well, I expect such behavior from Wraith, but not from self-righteous humans.
I have long said that the humans act more like Wraith than the Wraith do - and I think Carson just proved it.
And before you go all 'but they're Wraith', blah, blah, blah' - like I've said before - the Wraith are not hypocrites, they are what they are. But the humans preach life, while delivering more death than the Wraith ever have.
Let's do a body count. In this episode, maybe one human died at Wraith hands (that we can be fairly sure of). But how many died at human hands? Well, I don't know what happened to the first group of humans delivered to the Wraith by the other humans. If the Wraith killed them, it is really the humans who are responsible. Then, the humans (Sheppard & the villagers), killed another half-dozen humans in the explosion, maybe more. And many Wraith. Oh, and Carson killed a Wraith.
So, by the looks of it, the humans were responsible for the deaths of several dozen Wraith and fellow humans in this episode, while the Wraith maybe killed one human. Do the math.
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I am very disturbed by the coldness of his actions. A healer should look for ways to save, not to destroy. The fact that he destroyed the Wraith's medical data is upsetting enough - who knows what good it could have brought to human and Wraith alike. In this, Carson reminded me of an American doctor in Iraq who only saves Americans, and not wounded Iraqis. If we heard of such a thing on the news, we'd be outraged - a doctor is supposed to save hero and criminal alike - he is not supposed to make moral decisions of who lives, and who dies.
So, Carson has turned into a bringer of death. I knew this long before the episode (it was a give that Michael have treated him with the hoffan drug), but to see him being so ruthless about it…well, I expect such behavior from Wraith, but not from self-righteous humans.
I have long said that the humans act more like Wraith than the Wraith do - and I think Carson just proved it.
And before you go all 'but they're Wraith', blah, blah, blah' - like I've said before - the Wraith are not hypocrites, they are what they are. But the humans preach life, while delivering more death than the Wraith ever have.
Let's do a body count. In this episode, maybe one human died at Wraith hands (that we can be fairly sure of). But how many died at human hands? Well, I don't know what happened to the first group of humans delivered to the Wraith by the other humans. If the Wraith killed them, it is really the humans who are responsible. Then, the humans (Sheppard & the villagers), killed another half-dozen humans in the explosion, maybe more. And many Wraith. Oh, and Carson killed a Wraith.
So, by the looks of it, the humans were responsible for the deaths of several dozen Wraith and fellow humans in this episode, while the Wraith maybe killed one human. Do the math.
das
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