# Lost 1.21 "The Greater Good"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-1-21-the-greater-good/302381>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 4, 2005, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-1-21-the-greater-good/302381 "2005-05-04T15:52:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2005, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-1-21-the-greater-good/302381/101 "2005-05-07T15:46:02Z")

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> [@Roadfood](#):
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> Ok, hair-splitting accepted, so I’ll rephrase: Having doubts about taking innocent lives in the name of his cause does not make him a complete character, it’s just simplistic.
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> Nothing left to live for? He **could** have gotten away; he **could** have lived to continue the fight for this cause he supposedly believed in; he **could** have taken revenge on the ex-friend who betrayed him; he **could** have used the time before the CIA were to arrive to go and complete his mission. That he didn’t take any of those options is my point: as written, the character was one-dimensional and a complete idiot. Having him kill himself was the easy, obvious way to write that scene, it shows zero imagination on the part of the writers.

Or he **could** upon having been betrayed by the man he looked upon as his brother become so completely distraught that he killed himself. Sort of like what happened.

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**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2005, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-1-21-the-greater-good/302381/102 "2005-05-07T16:23:25Z")

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> [@NoClueBoy](#):
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> We should vote (or guess) on Turniphead’s new name.

Anakin?

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**Author:** ![Annie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@Annie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2005, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-1-21-the-greater-good/302381/103 "2005-05-07T16:41:59Z")

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Steve! Scott!

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**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2005, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-1-21-the-greater-good/302381/104 "2005-05-07T16:51:55Z")

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Damien Ender Reagan of the Corn

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**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2005, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-1-21-the-greater-good/302381/105 "2005-05-07T17:31:51Z")

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> [@NoClueBoy](#):
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> We should vote (or guess) on Turniphead’s new name.[

I nominate…

Ethan.

😃

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**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2005, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-1-21-the-greater-good/302381/106 "2005-05-07T23:20:26Z")

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Thomas Hobbes?

Jean Jacques Rousseau?

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