Sunday, December 7, 2014
Catfish, is it morally right or wrong?
This week in class, we started watching a documentary called " Catfish". Later, it was taken up by MTV and turned into a TV series. The documentary is about this guy called Nev who has been talking to this family for a while now. He receives paintings that is from the youngest daughter of the family. He then become friends on Facebook with the mom, dad, brother, youngest daughter, and her sister. Then he starts fall in love with the sister and start having this " online relationship" with her. They exchange pictures and message each other and talk to each other. Then the sister starts sending him covers of songs that she did and he starts finding out that she is just taking them from YouTube. So he becomes upset and does not know what to do. So he , his brother and his friend decide to visit the family to make sure if it is true. So they drive all night and decided to see if the house where the sister is true. they reach the house and looks to see if there are horses in the barn because the sister told him that she owns horses. It turns out as fake , and decided to meet the family during breakfast to find out the truth. He meets the family and it turns out that all of it was a fake. The Facebook profile of the sister was set up by the mom and that there was never this sister. Also the paintings were not from the daughter, it was from the mom. Also the pictures of the sister are from a professional photographer. So the question is this, Is it morally right to lie to people about who they are and get them to like or fall in love with a person that does not exist. Also, why do people do this for their amusement? Is it morally wrong to make it into a tv seires?
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I think it is completely immoral. I mean, this lady was pretending to be someone she was not. All she had to do was to be honest. Now Nev is really not going to like her. How can he even trust her again if she made up everything? People are just crazy, and obviously have nothing better to do.
ReplyDeleteIt is not morally right. I agree with Jessica that all she had to do was be honest and all of this could have been avoided. I believe some people may just do it for amusement. To me the show is entertaining how these people don't catch on fast enough, in many cases the signs are there but the person is in denial and blinded by lies and excuses.
ReplyDeleteIt's kind of hard to find anyway to claim "catfishing" as moral. It is deceitful by nature, which I think gives it claims to be morally wrong. I think a lot of people do this as means to hide their insecurities. They try to be the person they want to be, instead of being their true selves. I think it really sad, and even sadistic if they do it for amusement.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with everyone on this blog this documentary really shows how immoral catfish is and people as well. I agree with Payton that may do this to hide their insecurities, by trying to be the person that they always dream of being. This results in a complicated network of lies that can sometimes blow someone's mind completely like Nev's did in the documentary. It is very hard to justify catfish as moral at all, for a person to lie even to themselves shows how immoral they currently are.
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