Avatar Ethics Analysis

Avatar Ethics

An avatar is a physical shell controlled by forces from the outside. In the film, paraplegic marine Jake Sully’s mind/soul is placed inside the body of a genetically modified alien creature. He can control the massive and beautiful body, and is sent to infiltrate the native people on the lush planet of Pandora. They control the precious metal unobtanium, worth billions to the humans.
In this grim future, Earth has been destroyed and is uninhabitable. Jake embraces this new life on a foreign world where he can be physically mobile again, and can step into the shoes of his dead scientist brother. Jake is a soldier, and is a bit of an avatar to begin with; the government has privately employed marines like him and soldiers of