The Moral Ambiguity of Dexter
I have been reading about Ted Bundy on the Wikipedia. "Several hundred people were gathered outside the prison and cheered when they saw the signal that Bundy had been declared dead." Of all things, it makes me think of Dexter . On the one hand, you have to think that a TV series with a serial killer as its main character cannot fail to have an ambiguous morality. I mean, we're supposed to be sympathetic to him just because he only kills serial killers? All that that does is make him a missionary killer. He just rationalises his murders by believing that his victims deserved to die. It lets him feel that, instead of being the scum of society, he is actually doing society a favour by ridding it of its undesirable elements. And yet, if he only kills serial killers, then how is he any different from so many states in the United States? And if we cheer Ted Bundy's execution, how can we not cheer Dexter when he claims another victim?