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    The movie Frailty follows a father who believes he is commanded by God to kill "demons" that look like humans. His sons are split, with one believing their father and helping him carry out killings, while the other is skeptical and wants him to stop. In the end, the supportive son takes over the father's mission. Divine Command Theory holds that something is morally right if God commands it, removing objective morality. The film raises questions about how people would respond if God commanded seemingly immoral acts like murder, and whether we could truly know if a command came from God or an evil force.

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    The movie Frailty follows a father who believes he is commanded by God to kill "demons" that look like humans. His sons are split, with one believing their father and helping him carry out killings, while the other is skeptical and wants him to stop. In the end, the supportive son takes over the father's mission. Divine Command Theory holds that something is morally right if God commands it, removing objective morality. The film raises questions about how people would respond if God commanded seemingly immoral acts like murder, and whether we could truly know if a command came from God or an evil force.

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    Ballon, Karen Nicole G.

    Ethics

    3AD1 Sir Marc Aldous Baccay

    Frailty

    The movie Frailty is an American psychological horror film released on 2001


    and was directed by Bill Paxton. It’s his directorial debut and he was also starring in
    the film co-starring Matthew McConaughey and Powers Boothe. The plot focuses
    on the father who is visited by God’s angels and was commanded to fulfill God’s
    will by killing “demons” that look just like humans. He told the message to his two
    sons. The younger one, Adam, immediately believes his father while the older one,
    Fenton, is against him and thinks that he’s insane. Adam is supportive and helpful
    in carrying out the missions. Fenton is skeptical and wants his father to stop. Yet, at
    the end of the film, Adam grew up and takeover his father’s mission. Eventually
    killing his own brother and the FBI agent who was investigating the case related to
    Fenton’s case. Even though Adam walked into the FBI building, the cctv footage
    went fuzzy, blurring out his face so no one can identify him. This leaves us with a
    conclusion that the father and Adam were doing God’s work all along.

    Throughout the years, a moral theory has been quite controversial yet so
    simple when it comes to its rules. Divine Command Theory is a meta-ethical theory
    that states that something is morally good as long as it is commanded by God.
    Basically, the theory proposes that what is moral is determined by what God
    commands, and that for a human being to be moral is to follow his commands.
    Euthyphro Dilemma is a philosophical problem connecting to Divine Command
    Theory. It has two points. Point 1 is “Is that which is morally good, good, because
    God commands it?” Point 2 is “if God commands something is it automatically
    morally wrong?” Morality will then be arbitrary. There is no morality other than
    what God decides. Right or wrong is simply just down to how God feels.

    Divine Command Theory can be applied to the movie Frailty. God simply
    commands different things at a different time. It then sparks a troubling question,
    how will human beings ever know whether or not it’s God speaking to us or some
    other evil force? Some will argue that the Lord works in mysterious ways. His ways
    are not our ways. And we don’t have the right to question his commands. But if we
    were to question his commands especially if we believe it’s morally wrong, then we
    have the right to follow our intuition instead of forcing ourselves to follow God’s
    atrocious commands.

    Personally, I enjoyed the film Frailty. At first, it made me root for the older
    son because I thought the father was just insane and is killing innocent people. Then,
    I switched on rooting for the father and the younger son in the end. If God wants his
    followers to kill the “demons” in this world, then I have no problem with it. It’s
    better to destroy them than let them roam free without repenting for their sins. And
    if they’re roaming free, they could harm more people and cause more damage. If
    God commanded it himself, who are we to question it? It got me thinking, what if
    God is bloodier and darker than what he is usually portrayed? How will it change
    the faiths of us fellow Christians? Would his followers do as he say and kill people
    even if it’s immoral? I guess God has reasons that are beyond our understanding. It’s
    better not to judge him on external moral standards.

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