Shagor and Woody's Dilemma

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Shagor finds Woody and they have a philosophical discussion one of my favorite lines here is when Shagor has found him and he's sitting right across from him. He says you should admit your situation there would be more dignity in it and I think Woody Harrison agrees but then also wants to live. That's the difference like Shagor will not be very happy to risk his life for the whatever principle of dignity he's upholding here whereas Woody Harrison is like no you're right it would be more honorable and we get kind of again even though this is an episode that could go either way.

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]