Post by ethan on Oct 30, 2014 0:49:14 GMT
When Perry says “…once a thing is set to happen, all you can do is hope it won’t. Or will – depending. As long as you live, there’s always something waiting, and even if it’s bad, and you know it’s bad, what can you do?”, he is claiming that our fate/destiny determines our course of events. Ultimately we have zero influence in determining the future of our life. This statement is partially true. When parents decide to have children, a child can develop a genetic disorder such as Down Syndrome when born that can prohibit them from full mind capacity. These medical issues defiantly can not be determined from the child and usually are not due to the parent, resulting in random chance of someone receiving a genetic disorder. While this is true, Perry is wrong when saying society has no control over their lives. This statement is to rather rid his guilt due to his belief of the Clutter family's inability to escape demise and rid responsibility of his action. Later he claims that people committing such a horrible crime should never get away with it, inferring they will get caught and face prison. But he fails to realize that he could have not had this fear if he took responsibility of his actions and determined murder and robbery as a wrongful doing. Had this happened he would have not accompanied Dick and the Clutter's would have lived in serenity. In modern society, this can be seen with in Jordan Belfort, the Wolf of Wall Street. He proposed to investors fictitious companies overseas that were supposedly great opportunities. Then, he took small investments ($10,000 each investment) from wealthy people, stealing the investments, claiming it was due to the market. Mr. Belfort was aware of his action's and this lead to his prison sentencing. While natural diseases can determine fate, our individual actions can change the course of the future as well.