The Life or Death Choice for Moss

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"I think he's being sincere yeah I think he's 100% would not kill Carla Jean if he did it but Moss doesn't so this is a big choice this is one of those life or death choices for Moss," she says. "He should have listened to what Woody was saying like he has principles and if he had listened to that in between we know we've seen the sheriff has asked Carla Jean to say to tell him where Llewell is." She adds, "It's funny because they will undercut anything like later when Carla Jean calls the sheriff and he says that story you said about Charlie whatever".

David and Tamler dive into the Coen brothers’ bleak and beautiful adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s 2005 novel "No Country for Old Men." What’s the underlying philosophy that animates Anton Chigurh? Does he have a code of any kind, or is he just a ghostly symbol of human brutality and a pitiless indifferent universe? Does he represent a new kind of evil or is Sheriff Bell just getting old? What elements, if any, in the film are more dream than reality?

And speaking of moral decline, a new Nature study claims that we have the illusory belief that people are getting worse - but can they really establish that it’s an illusion?

Mastroianni, A. M., & Gilbert, D. T. (2023). The illusion of moral decline. Nature, 1-8.

Mastroianni blog post about the illusion of moral decline

No Country for Old Men (movie) [wikipedia.org]