If you heard a story about a man with schizophrenia who killed three women, would you view him as sane or insane? Some may justify his actions by saying he is insane due to his mental instability; however, some may view him as totally competent and rule him sane, leading to different reform measures and consequence. There is a thin line between these contradicting statements and everyone’s line is different. In The Codebreaker, concepts like just vs unjust, sane vs insane, and friend vs foe are carried throughout the twisted plot and provides examples for all four arguments. A big part of The Codebreaker was the validation of the Puppet Master’s actions, whether it was just or unjust. Rutledge wasn’t a perfect person and did some things that caused innocent lives to be taken, but does that justify the actions of the …show more content…
This can be because they are “insane”, but that has many different definitions. The Puppet Master can be viewed as insane because he is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result. He wants Secretary of Defense Rutledge to beg and plead, but for what? Nothing is going to reverse the lives lost, but at the same time, he is sane. Insane to some people is an umbrella that in cases of mental diseases and disorders, like schizophrenia. Schizophrenia can cause people, anyone, to hear voices and, if left untreated, these voices can become violent. Someone with this disorder may be insane, because without it, they wouldn’t have commit whatever they did to themselves or others. A respectable, well-liked man with a successful job and a beautiful family that he loves, is very capable of hurting his family or passerbys due to schizophrenia. He is insane because his mind is no longer his mind. The Puppet Master and his accomplices can be argued to be insane, but insane is more of a mental disease than an