Mercy Rules: what The Heart knows and the ethics of killing in Dishonored
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There is this scene in Unbreakable where Bruce Willis’s awakening superhero, David Dunn, stands in the center of a train station and lets the crowd buffett him. With each touch, he sees the crimes perpetrated by the people around him. He eventually discovers a killer in the crowd, and sets off to stop him.
But what stays with me is all the crimes he let pass. He stood in a sea of malignance, letting thieves, thugs, and rapists go free. I always wondered how he could do that.
“Jesus H, did you see that? Those rats just devoured that guy, like, literally," says Corvo in an alternate version of Dishonored, probably. “I mean, what am I going to tell Emily when she asks what happened at work today?"
