Watch Brokeback Mountain (2005: dir. Ang Lee), starring Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Anne Hathaway.
Drawing on the ideas of Epicurus, state two or three reasons to think that Sheriff (Vince Vaughn) did the morally right thing by returning to Malaysia and two or three reasons to think that he did the morally wrong thing by returning.
By “drawing on the ideas of Epicurus” I mean bringing some of one of these thinkers’ ethical ideas to bear on the question of the moral rightness or wrongness of what these fictional characters do. For instance, you might say, “Aristotle would view Amy Fowler’s action as wrong because of his idea that… In this case, what she should have done from Aristotle’s perspective was…”
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