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Saturday, March 8, 2008

V for Justification...wait...

I think it’s time to question another of our underlying assumptions, yay! So, in class we spent quite some time talking about whether certain of V’s actions were justifiable, for example, killing the priest who had merely been present at Larkhill, but who probably hadn’t contributed to any of the killing or experimentation (though who knows what he did to little girls there), or V’s abduction, imprisonment and torture of Evey. My question is, why should we be concerned as to whether these are justifiable actions or not? V does not feel that he has to justify his actions to anyone, merely take responsibility for them. V is also working to create anarchy, the land of do-as-you-please, not the land of do-as-you-please-then-tell-us-why-it’s-okay. If he is just doing as he pleases, even if he has a reason for doing what he does, do we need to try to justify it if V himself does not think a justification is necessary?

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