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THE SOPRANOS Tony’s Ethics

THE SOPRANOS Tony’s Ethics. By: Jose Montealegre. Tony Sopranos Ethical Obligations.

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THE SOPRANOS Tony’s Ethics

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  1. THE SOPRANOSTony’s Ethics By: Jose Montealegre

  2. Tony Sopranos Ethical Obligations • He is the boss of a crime family, and is responsible for beatings, murders, extortion and theft; he promotes prostitution, is a racist and cheats on his wife, all of this is impulse by the love he has towards his family, both a criminal family as in blood relatives. • As bad as he might be, he is also a good man, looks after his mother, and his children. He cares for his wife, and friends alike, donates toys at Christmas, and even helps regulate the speeding in his neighborhood. • Tony is a bad man, for the same reasons he is a good man. http://mauryk2.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/tony-soprano-girl.jpg http://mauryk2.file.wordpress.com/2009/10/tony-soprano-girl.jpg

  3. Tony’s Ethical Code • He is an Italian descendant, and lives a life between pastrami and karate chops. • He lives solely to the thought that the means are justified by the final product and even if those means mean stealing, cheating and gambling with people lives in order to provide for his family he is willing to do it. • It’s business, it’s not crime, business

  4. Impartial Morality • Tony justifies his crime because it benefits his family both in crime and blood. • Tony’s justification shows us that he is impartial with his morality, he looks how his life will affect those he loves, but does not care how his life will affect others outside the circle of love. • Morality is essentially about these partial relations.

  5. Should Dr. Melfi accept a patient like Tony • This is a great question, should she accept a client as volatile as Tony? The problem arises when Tony expects her to help him solve his problems, but by doing this she does not think how this will affect others outside her moral circle. • A psychiatrist would help a mob boss solve his problems, thus making him a more successful crime head. This would affect many people greatly. • In episode “Meadowlands” Tony and Junior fight over who will have the power. Dr. Melfi helps Tony by telling him to let old people have the illusion of power, that will calm their minds. Tony did as told, and this made him become the powerful man he is.

  6. Continuation • Dr. Melfi is looking to cure Tony’s mental insanity that drives him to forget about the exterior world and concentrate on his beneficial circle. • Dr. Melfi also has the option to drop Tony as a patient, and does re consider him. She does decide to leave him when, she is forced to exile for fear that the enemy gang might look for her, and in consequence one of her patients commits suicide to the thought she left him. • This shows that Dr. Melfi has moral limits and knows their distinction.

  7. Caring and Impartiality • Tony is a divided man

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