[MD] Morality and Prudence

[Matt Kundert]

Hey Dan,

Yeah, it is interesting.  I still think that both of your readings of Dexter 
and Walt are very wrong, but I think it punches up just how much 
interpolation must be done by the viewer to make sense of the story.  
We see roughly the same evidence, but draw different conclusions, 
conclusions that I think might be indeterminate to the evidence.  For 
example, I think an "inborn sense of morality" is antithetical to the 
spirit of the show (and Pirsig's philosophy for that matter), but it's a 
sense of the whole, not a little fact lying around that gives me that 
sense.  And vice versa on your side of it.  And for Walt, I don't think 
there's anything psychopathic about inadequacy or anger, nor do I 
think he was a "bad guy" waiting to happen.  I think the 
extraordinary pressures of the situation, combined with the mounting 
consequences and demands of each successive choice, creates his 
course of evolution.  But, there's still no evidential silver bullet.

Matt