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Ethical Issues In Mean Girls

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I would replace the movie “The Good Girl” with the movie “Mean Girls” for the topic ethics. The movie “Mean Girls” is about four high school girls that are called the plastics, with the main being Regina George. The character Regina George, actions include rude, self-centered, cheating on boyfriend, gossiping, and spreading rumors. The Ethics demonstrated in “Mean Girls” is when the bad decisions (sin) and unkindness Regina portrays gets challenged as Regina starts to lose friends and her idolization due to her actions. The movie takes a turn as Regina realizes her friends have turned on her and she gets ran over by a bus. This I would relate in religion by saying that this is karma or a type of punishment Regina received by doing the things
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