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Ethical questions in The 100

I love the subject of ethics, and I would love to teach a class on the ethics of The 100, a TV show that ran from 2014-2020. I've only watched the show, haven't read the books (a rare admission for me).  This is going to be an ongoing thoughts, and edits, I'll update on my latest rewatch. 1. Many are killed because the strict laws need to be enforced on the satellite called the Ark. They think they are the last of humanity. It creates many resentments among the people to have parents murdered for breaking the law, and those resentments cause them to do things that strike back at the leaders who made those decisions. Jaha's son is murdered because of this.  Murder is never justified? There's lots of murder in this show. If culling the people is necessary for the survival of some, that could be explored as a group, not imposed on the people. Jaha's mistake was the idea that they couldn't come to a peaceful solution. They did. Now it's fiction and what if n...