Madam Secretary Season 1 Episode 3 "The Operative".
http://transcripts.foreverdreaming.org/viewtopic.php?f=456&t=22829&sid=1616a89a701353472cc4f759fe156a55
I've said it before and I'll say it again. Morality is an
illusion (to be precise, moral absolutism is a delusion, a superior
functionality would be moral relativism and moral
consequentialism), only Ethics exist. And there will always be
ethical dilemmas (or for those stuck in the idea of morality, moral
dilemmas), for indeed this is the very nature of physical
incarnation, one important modality from which the soul grows
through tough decision making and the karma of the
consequences.
In this episode, Madam Secretary in order to save the life of an
American spy operative captured by the Pakistanis to be executed
within 24 hours, wants her husband (a Uni lecturer) to give the
Russian Foreign Minister's daughter an A grade for her Uni module,
in exchange for the Russian government selling the Pakistani
government military technology that they want, in exchange for the
life of the American spy operative. Her husband, offended, says No
Way, that's just unethical and immoral. See, that right there, is
the myopia of moral absolutism. Choosing the path of greater good
where it counts the most, that's the definition of good, of ethical
good, of moral good (if you insist on morality). A man's life (and
likely much more, indirectly) depends on it. No brainer here. Only
moralistic fools will see it as a dilemma and struggle with such.
At the end of the episode, Madam Secretary herself admits to her
husband that she fears this job will end up corrupting and decaying
her 'moral fiber' (*rolls eyes*), again, a myopic, silly and
dysfunctional idea of morality. It's possible this job allows her
to choose unethically, certainly, because that's the point of
physical incarnation, to be afforded the opportunity to choose and
live with the karma of your decisions. And if she (ie. anyone) so
chooses to be increasingly unethical in her decisions, then that's
her path, her choice, her karma. Karma considers simultaneously
both intention and consequence, not either alone. Morality is a
problematic delusion, it doesn't exist. Only ethics and cosmoethics
exist, certainly, to which the closest functioning versions of
morality to speak of (that makes any sense at all) would be moral
relativism and moral consequentialism.
