I've submitted a similiar idea before, but I'd like to reassert my thoughts on what constitutes good, esspecially as it applies to Jacob.
I for one do believe Jacob has good intentions, but that doesn't make one's actions yield good results.
Here's what I mean. Let's say I have a child who is affraid to drive, so to "help" her, I drive everywhere for her until she's 30 years old. At that point I realize I'm tierd of driving her everywhere, and so I tell her to do it, but now she's 30 and doesn't know how to drive. Did I "help" her?
The same can be said if I give a bum $10. Did I help him, or make him dependant?
The biggest example within the show itself was when Locke told Charlie that he wouldn't help the moth by opening up its cocoon. The Moth, Locke said, would be too weak to survive if it didn't have to struggle to free itself.
The same arguement is made today with the Healthcare debate, bailouts, and unemployement. Are you helping people, or making them weak by positively reinforcing failure?
The point is, is that's it always looks good to be nice, but that doesn't mean that you're not doing somebody a disservice.
FLOCKE therefore, while asserting that humanity always fails, may simply be expressing a harsh reality, and tough love. Meanwhile Jacob, is trying to help. But by helping, perhaps Jacob is merely encouraging failure. It might just be a simple truth that there will never be a perfect world with no fighting and no poverty. It won't ever happen. Ever. And the fact that FLOCKE understands this doesn't make him evil or bad. And the fact that Jacob wants to correct this doesn't make him good. My assertion is that it makes Jacob naive.
I would recommend you to read, "Memnoch the Devil." It's an Anne Rice book in her Vampire series. In it, Memnoch is THE Devil. The one cast out of heaven. But here he's presented as an angel with good intentions. He loves everybody, and rebels against a god who refuses to let everybody in to heaven. Memnoch believes that we all should be given rights to heaven, but the point he misses, is that we don't all earn that right.
The larger point is, is that we aren't all guaranteed success. We must have something to work for. Something to motivate us. If we all wake up and we're guaranteed food and healthcare, and we don't have to do anything to get it, then what motivates us to succeed. The answer is nothing, and that might very well be what ultimately makes Jacob the bad guy. Perhaps for all his good intentions, he only succeeds is breeding weakness.
I for one do believe Jacob has good intentions, but that doesn't make one's actions yield good results.
Here's what I mean. Let's say I have a child who is affraid to drive, so to "help" her, I drive everywhere for her until she's 30 years old. At that point I realize I'm tierd of driving her everywhere, and so I tell her to do it, but now she's 30 and doesn't know how to drive. Did I "help" her?
The same can be said if I give a bum $10. Did I help him, or make him dependant?
The biggest example within the show itself was when Locke told Charlie that he wouldn't help the moth by opening up its cocoon. The Moth, Locke said, would be too weak to survive if it didn't have to struggle to free itself.
The same arguement is made today with the Healthcare debate, bailouts, and unemployement. Are you helping people, or making them weak by positively reinforcing failure?
The point is, is that's it always looks good to be nice, but that doesn't mean that you're not doing somebody a disservice.
FLOCKE therefore, while asserting that humanity always fails, may simply be expressing a harsh reality, and tough love. Meanwhile Jacob, is trying to help. But by helping, perhaps Jacob is merely encouraging failure. It might just be a simple truth that there will never be a perfect world with no fighting and no poverty. It won't ever happen. Ever. And the fact that FLOCKE understands this doesn't make him evil or bad. And the fact that Jacob wants to correct this doesn't make him good. My assertion is that it makes Jacob naive.
I would recommend you to read, "Memnoch the Devil." It's an Anne Rice book in her Vampire series. In it, Memnoch is THE Devil. The one cast out of heaven. But here he's presented as an angel with good intentions. He loves everybody, and rebels against a god who refuses to let everybody in to heaven. Memnoch believes that we all should be given rights to heaven, but the point he misses, is that we don't all earn that right.
The larger point is, is that we aren't all guaranteed success. We must have something to work for. Something to motivate us. If we all wake up and we're guaranteed food and healthcare, and we don't have to do anything to get it, then what motivates us to succeed. The answer is nothing, and that might very well be what ultimately makes Jacob the bad guy. Perhaps for all his good intentions, he only succeeds is breeding weakness.
