Joker's Wild: Can We Hold The Clown Prince Morally Responsible?

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In the essay “The Joker’s Wild: Can We Hold the Clown Prince Morally Responsible?” Robichaud discusses the fact that not everyone can be held morally responsible for their actions even though they perform them freely. Robichaud uses the depiction of Batman and the supervillain Joker to show how an insane person can do terrible, horrible, unspeakable things by choice but because they are mentally not there “not playing with a full deck” then they are not morally responsible (p.1). Robichaud states that because the insanity invades his free will that the Joker cannot be held accountable. He also leaves the question in his conclusion of what the right thing to do with a person like this would be “Pity him? Hate him? Institutionalize him? Let him die, if the opportunity arises?” (p.11). …show more content…

She gives many colorful examples of things society today finds appalling such as cannibalism, incest, and the outlandish displays of nudity and sex displayed at a wedding. The thing is those things weren’t all that out of the ordinary in the Game of Thrones, all except the incest it seems that was frowned upon. Even Dany was not at first accustomed to the harsh cruel ways of the Dothrakis at first but she slowly began to be more accustomed to it. Tullman really tries to highlight how different cultures think, do and say things

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