Crash Movie Ethics

The Ultimate Search of the Good
Differentiating ethics and morality can be easily confused as they both relate to the right and wrongs of living. Ethics focuses on good character and the good humans try to achieve, meanwhile morality tends towards the path that guides humans to the good as duty (ISG 8). Philosophers Immanuel Kant, Aristotle and Emmanuel Levinas approach ethics in three different ways yet all three revolve around the Catholic expectations of being an ethical and moral human. In the movie, Crash, character Officer Ryan experiences situations that requires the code of ethics and morality to react accordingly, to deal with the problem at hand. The responses to his experiences shows that Officer Ryan has ethics but acts unmoral
After approaching a burning car, he races to save the person at risk, this is where he experiences the scream. As he hears the scream his gear turns into rescue mode when he races to the burning car, the scream made Ryan act in the moment as it is a call for help (ISG 8). This is an automatic response in which demonstrates how he is ethical because without thinking about it he immediately reacts to save the person in the car, even if that means risking his own life. Likewise, Levinas focuses on the face-to-face experience which is similar to the experience of the beggar, when he is at face with the problem of the women being trapped, he feels as if he is held responsible because he is aware of how helpless she is and strives to save her, he does not turn his face but rather tries to save her looking at the face ethically. Next, the experience of obligation affects Officer Ryan directly when he realizes that the women trapped in the car is someone he wrongfully hurt. At this moment he feels obliged to do the right thing to redeem himself from the previous night, so he does everything within his control to help this woman escape the car before burning. Corresponding to the experience of contrast, Officer Ryan believes it is unfair that
First, he uses Kant's way of coming to know things using practical and theoretical reasoning, theoretical reasoning being that he hears a person screaming for help so as his duty of being a police officer he selflessly with the trust of his coworker helps the face of the other. Practical reasoning being that he does everything within his will power to save the woman since it is his conscience choice based on his duty as a police. This relates to the experience of the scream because Officer Ryan must have come to a reasoning after hearing the scream based on automatic response. His reasoning decisions shows that he is an ethical person because the moral duty to serve and protect the community is shown when he frees a woman from a burning car. Ryan also uses Kant's use of moral maxims, acting in ways he wants everyone ese in the world to act (ISG 16); he acted out of a conscience choice when saving her, he calmed down, asked permission to cut her belt, pushed her skirt down and touched her respectively. This created a bond between them that ensured she felt most comfortable, if roles were switched, Officer Ryan would hope to get a police like himself as he treats the women as he wants to be treated showing his morality. Throughout this situation, Officer Ryan treated this woman as an end, not a means, meaning that when he realized who the woman