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Comparison Of Captain Kirk And The Devil In The Dark

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In the beginning of each of the three examples the decision to act is made because it is each of their jobs. Deckard is hired to kill the androids and believes them to be heartless creatures who only want to kill, therefore he has no moral objection to killing these humanlike creatures himself. Mitchell Courtenay is a Star-Class advertiser whose main goal it is to sell product to the public, and to convince the public that there is nothing wrong with the system that is in place to govern the people. As for “The Devil in the Dark” Captain Kirk is hunting a creature that he does not fully understand because it is killing members of a mining colony without provocation. However as the story for each of these characters continue they start to realize

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