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Examples Of Walt Code Of Ethics

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Throughout the series we see countless examples of how Walt’s ethics are tested. Over the course of the series we see this meek scientist evolve into Heisenberg this meth king who is responsible for hundreds of deaths. The entire second season is dedicated to the crash of Wayfarer 515, a crash that Walt is ethically responsible. Walt is being blackmailed by Jessie and Jane to handover Jessie money, Walt wants to wait until Jessie is clean to give it to him, but Jane convinces Jessie to stand up to Walt to get the cash. This is fulfilling Jessie and Jane’s “will to power”, because they are doing what they must to over come the situation they are in and take back control. Walt ends up going to a bar where he meets Jane’s father, and they discuss how hard it is to raise children, but no matter what you must love them. After the conversation Walt goes back to Jessie place …show more content…

While he is there, Jane roles on her back and starts suffocating on her own vomit, Walt’s immediate reaction is to go over to Jane and help her, but something happens. (“Seven Thirty-Seven Down Over ABQ”). Walt betrays his ethical philosophy of helping someone in need, or preventing them from dying because he views Jane as a threat to Jessie and his pride. Instead he watches her die. The morals that are guiding his actions are placing Jessie’s life and his life above hers. He believes that by Jane’s death Jessie will be protected, and Walt will be able to manipulate him again. Walter White is ethically responsible for the plane crash and death of hundreds. The morals of a man who once was struggling to deicide if he should or shouldn’t kills Krazy-8, is now a man that does not bat an eye at the destruction that he has caused, and the lives that he is morally responsible for.

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