Blog #5

In the fourth episode of Firefly, Inara, Mal and Kaylee go to a ball where Mal gets in a fight with Inara’s customer, Atherton Wing.  The fight happens because Atherton regards Inara more as property than a human being, and Mal is not alright with that.  The culture on Persephone (the planet they landed on) requires anyone who agrees to a duel to follow through with that and fight in the duel; this rule is so strictly enforced that Mal was held captive all night so that he couldn’t run away.   In the dual, Mal wins and walks away with Inara back to their ship.

            I think that it incredibly ironic that Mal, a thief, crook and smuggler, has better morals than Atherton, a rich, high class, high society figure on the planet of Persephone.  In most cases, high society peoples have better manors than low income peoples because they were raised to have higher standards.  In the future, it seems that the people with good personalities are not given the life they deserve simply because chose to NOT follow the Alliance and to stand up for what they believe in.  This brings me to my question for the day: do the people who have high positions in our society have the highest morals and do they deserve to be there? In today’s society, the leaders of our world are often people who looked away at the wrongs in society just so that they could advance their career.  Some people purposefully ignore opportunities to help so that they can focus on other aspects of their career.  Is it right that only the most  popular and well known politicians get elected when the moralistic ones are stuck behind the scenes trying to make a difference in the world?