The Evil Character in Being Human(Uk)

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Bradley Quinn Prof. Hufnagle Comp2 February 10, 2013 Whoof The nature of the lie has entranced philosophers for millennia. All major religions condemn it and most wives are quite keen to it; however, for all its infamy, humanity still turns to it in times of peril. Out of fear for the future, for consequence, comes a silver tongue to change reality, if but for a moment. At its core, humanity craves that which it does not possess, it strives to be in another place at another time for no reason other than to be something not itself; inherent thus is the duality of man. In Toby Winehouse’s television show Being Human, the werewolf character demonstrates the largest capacity for evil because he violates completely the moral standards that are contracted upon him by the society he exists in. In Professor Donovan Hufnagle’s essay “Being Human Has Never Been More Frightening”, Professor Hufnagle argues that Mitchell, the vampire character, is more evil than the ghost or the werewolf because he violates the moral standards he subjects himself to by living with humans. It is from this argument we derive the definition of evil that the capacity of evil for a character will be evaluated against and will thus determine the character’s placement on an imaginary evil scale, with a minimum at complete moral compliance and a maximum at complete moral violation. The question then rises how to prove that the codes of morality that the werewolf and the vampire are allegedly contracted to are legitimate. The moral standards by which actions are evaluated are set, not by the perpetrator of the act, but by the witnesses. It is the social contract which all beings in a society are philosophically obliged to adhere to. Jean Jacques Rousseau, author of The Social Contract, claims that ““Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext

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