Is suicide a viable option for Agent Sliver?
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Is suicide a viable option for Agent Sliver?
In his essay, The Myth of Sysiphus, Albert Camus saw suicide as the “one truly serious philosophical problem.”
Looking back at his years of murders, do you think suicide is a viable, if not the only option for Agent Sliver?
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Suicide is the cowards' way out. Sliver was anything but a coward. He showed that numerous times, like when he saved the Shredders and Kelly. It even took courage to hide that his ship, Franklin, had 'awoken' and become self aware. He especially showed courage when he allowed Shawn Chase to live, for then he wasn't doing something that could be justified by "What they don't know won't hurt 'em."
When he didn't kill Chase he was going against direct indoctrination, not to mention direct orders. The killing had become so deeply ingrained in him, that by not killing he was going against what he believed was the right thing to do, his 'purpose' in life. It takes tremendous courage to go against everything you have been taught to believe is the one and only truth.
So, no, suicide was not a viable option for Sliver. There was no cowardice in him.
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This is incredible! Suicide would indeed have led him to escape his problems and not fix them. It is clear enough that suicide indeed would never have been a viable option.Kendra M Parker wrote: ↑13 Aug 2018, 18:25 No, I don’t think that suicide is truly a viable option for Agent Sliver, and I think that is represented with both the false and true endings for the book. Agent Sliver has far too much atonement to complete before he passes. Despite his feelings for everything, he could not take his own life, knowing that there were things he could legitimately do to provide true justice. Suicide would have simply been a way to escape from his problems rather than fixing them.
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