Who Is The Red Pill In The Matrix: Myth Or Reality?
The choice between the red pill and the blue pill is ultimately a choice between comfort and familiarity or the enlightenment of knowledge. This is the ultimatum that Neo, the main character of the science fiction motion picture, The Matrix, must decide between. The fate of each pill can only be somewhat what foreseen, the blue pill will return him to the life he currently knows and the red pill will expose him to the truth and reality he seeks. Although the movie is purely fiction, it holds validity and offers insight to how we as a society would react if the same question was presented to us. Knowing only the fate of each pill and the words Morpheus provided:“Remember: all I'm offering is the truth. Nothing more,” the viewer can pose the
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question “To what extent is it ethical to make a decision based on what we see as the truth and/or reality?”
Based upon this idea, it is extremely unethical to make a decision such as this based only upon our preconceived ideas of what reality is. For this reason, personally, I would choose to take the blue pill. Although Morpheus tells Neo that he can offer him the true reality if he chooses the red pill, there is no true way to trust that Morpheus actually knows that it is the true reality he discovered. With the little evidence he provides, one would be forced to blindly accept his claims. The question of what reality is can be defined as a social construct created to describe what we are comfortable and familiar with. In the movie, the supposed “true reality” could just be another play on the matrix itself, containing yet another constructed world controlled by outside beings letting Morpheus believe he found the matrix. There is not enough leverage to reason taking the red pill, and I would not feel comfortable taking this chance, reasoning solely on what I know through Morpheus. Because of this, it is unethical to choose the red pill for the idea that there is nothing truly known about the supposed reality it holds when there is no definition of a true reality.
One might argue that if both pills could possibly offer an untrue reality, does it actually make a difference in which one is chosen.
Although this could be said, logically, it makes more sense to stay within the comfortable reality rather than to possibly risk one’s life in the reality offered in the red pill. Morpheus stated in the movie that if one chose the blue pill they would go back to the life they know and choose what to believe. One could find comfort in this statement, for they could choose to believe that the matrix does exist, but know that the risk was too high for the unknown outcome. The question doesn’t come down to which can offer the truth, but which seems more reasonable in the context, the blue pill is the most reliable, for if the reality Neo knew was exposed as untrue, the same could hold true for Morpheus’ reality.
Ultimately, both pills are offering insight into the reality in which one lives. Although the red pill could show the reality that Neo had always been searching for, based on what Morpheus said to Neo, it does not give a valid reason for choosing risk over safety. It makes one understand understand how flexible the idea of reality truly is and how unethical it would be to make a decision based on the idea that reality is a set state if
idea.
question “To what extent is it ethical to make a decision based on what we see as the truth and/or reality?”
Based upon this idea, it is extremely unethical to make a decision such as this based only upon our preconceived ideas of what reality is. For this reason, personally, I would choose to take the blue pill. Although Morpheus tells Neo that he can offer him the true reality if he chooses the red pill, there is no true way to trust that Morpheus actually knows that it is the true reality he discovered. With the little evidence he provides, one would be forced to blindly accept his claims. The question of what reality is can be defined as a social construct created to describe what we are comfortable and familiar with. In the movie, the supposed “true reality” could just be another play on the matrix itself, containing yet another constructed world controlled by outside beings letting Morpheus believe he found the matrix. There is not enough leverage to reason taking the red pill, and I would not feel comfortable taking this chance, reasoning solely on what I know through Morpheus. Because of this, it is unethical to choose the red pill for the idea that there is nothing truly known about the supposed reality it holds when there is no definition of a true reality.
One might argue that if both pills could possibly offer an untrue reality, does it actually make a difference in which one is chosen.
Although this could be said, logically, it makes more sense to stay within the comfortable reality rather than to possibly risk one’s life in the reality offered in the red pill. Morpheus stated in the movie that if one chose the blue pill they would go back to the life they know and choose what to believe. One could find comfort in this statement, for they could choose to believe that the matrix does exist, but know that the risk was too high for the unknown outcome. The question doesn’t come down to which can offer the truth, but which seems more reasonable in the context, the blue pill is the most reliable, for if the reality Neo knew was exposed as untrue, the same could hold true for Morpheus’ reality.
Ultimately, both pills are offering insight into the reality in which one lives. Although the red pill could show the reality that Neo had always been searching for, based on what Morpheus said to Neo, it does not give a valid reason for choosing risk over safety. It makes one understand understand how flexible the idea of reality truly is and how unethical it would be to make a decision based on the idea that reality is a set state if
idea.