Lesser Evil

I caught a part of "The Richies" season premiere. The basic plot is that a family of cons, The Mallorys, get into an accident with a wealthy couple, Doug & Cherien Rich. The Mallorys lead a life filled with scams and sucker punches. These nomads help themselves to the spoils, i.e. the keys of the Rich's posh suburban home.

The nagging thought of what happened during the accident kept coming to mind. They Mallorys were apparently in some dispute with another party, both of them were driving RVs and they were playing chicken, bantering back and forth. The Mallorys were in the correct lane while their antagonist was in the opposing traffic lane. The antagonist crashes into the on coming BMW with Doug & Cherien Rich. The antagonist continues on his journey fleeing the scene, while the Mallory's stop and go back to help. Cherien was killed on impact, her wrangled body lay outside the car. Doug has a severe injury and gasp a few labored sentences to Wayne Mallory, the father, before dying. The Mallorys happen upon the keys, not only to the home but to a new life for themselves. Apparently the deceased were new to the neighborhood so no one initially suspected the Mallory's scam.

Okay, here is where the line gets fuzzy, after they take the keys they push the BMW into a pond and watch it sink. I felt such a sense of anger watching this, it was an outrage. How could they live with themselves and furthermore involve their kids in this? Seeing those little hands on the trunk of the car pushing it into the pond, woke a righteous indignation in me. This just seemed to shout wrong on so many levels.

I made the comment to my husband that it would have been better for them to leave the scene than to make the Rich's situation worse. Is there a "lesser evil"?

Personal belief, it becomes a matter of the intention of the heart, the decedent depths of human heart are yet to be defined. Thus we are bound to the technicalities of the law, for it is only by the endless definition of the letter of the law, that we build the platform for our loop hole seeking lawyers. This slippery slope mentality seems to wage war in our justice system. He wasn't smoking pot because he did not inhale. I wasn't having sex with her because no penetration occurred. Where do we draw the line? Rather, should I say to some, "Is there a line?"

Forever pursuing the vanishing vapors of a value system. Should one dwell too long upon these thoughts, a sense of pessimism settles in. Thus my adherence to the law of the harvest, you reap what you sow, and the belief in karma, it will come back around. The higher power comes into play here, for ultimately all scores are settled.