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Originally Posted by Tinordi
Pretty sure your moral compass needs fixing.
To be clear, what you're saying is that it was okay to to be complicit and complacent in the near death and death of two people that your supposed friend loves. Because of a self appointed role of of knowing what's right for that person.
That's a pretty fundamental misread of what is really going on.
Walt betrayed Jesse because he didn't help save the woman he loved from death when he was totally capable of doing because it served his own interests more and then willingly poisoned a child that Jesse loved for the same reason, to serve Walt's own selfish ends.
Pretty cut and dry. I would go back and watch the series again because I think you're misunderstanding the dynamics at work.
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This isn't about my moral compass. This isn't reality, it's a television program. From the very beginning, the underlying theme has been about Walt doing bad things but for the right reasons, then having to deal with the blow-back, rinse and repeat. (Not to get OT, but I don't watch Dexter and think being a serial executioner is morally correct even if he does it for the right reasons).
Sometimes decisions can be selfish and still be for the right reasons. Those 2 things do not have to be exclusive. Would it have been morally the right thing for Walt to bring Jesse into the world of fast money, and then abandon him as a heroin addict and let Jane continue to put him and his family in danger? Or would it be morally right for Walt to leave Jesse as Gus's prisoner and slave being only one screw up from having a box cutter in his neck?
Walt's mental state is complicated and if all you're seeing is the selfish side, and not the "family man" with protective instincts still surfacing, then you are only getting half the picture. Walt isn't a 100% cold-hearted villian yet.
We're talking about 2 people who manufacture a dangerous drug and have murdered people in order to keep themselves out of trouble. Making Brock sick for a day isn't the most terrible thing either have them have done. Walt being a brilliant chemist, I have to believe that the poison was administered in a dose that he knew would not permanently harm the kid.