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Lacanian Ethics

Žižek And So On

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The Ethics of the Uberman Short

In bridge, the Ray Finds character wants to kill Colin Farrell's character because he accidentally killed a child. He says like, you don't do that. If I killed a child, I would instantly put the gun on my mouth and kill myself. And sure enough, at the end of the movie, he accidentally kills a child. So he is an ethical agent. But that ethics comes from a kind of personal standard,. There's not an external source of ethics in that situation.

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