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    The document discusses the video game The Last of Us and how it deals with the concept of ethical egoism. In the game, Joel is tasked with escorting Ellie across the U.S. so her blood can be used to create a cure. Joel loses his daughter at the start of the outbreak and grows close to Ellie. However, when they reach the hospital, Joel is told Ellie will die if the surgery is performed. Faced with this, Joel chooses to save Ellie instead of letting her die for a possible cure. By saving Ellie to avoid his own pain of loss, the document argues Joel's decision demonstrates ethical egoism by prioritizing his own benefit over potentially helping others.

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    Dalton Prescott

    Professor Burleson

    Introduction to Ethics

    7/3/2023

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    Ethical egoism is making choices the benefit you rather than thinking of how you are

    affecting others. The Last of Us deals with ethical egoism by thrusting its characters into a post-

    apocalyptic world where you are forced to think about yourself for the benefit of your own

    survival. This is shown when Joel is tasked with transporting a girl named Ellie across the United

    States so a cure can be manufactured from her blood that is immune from the virus. Early in the

    show Joel loses his daughter when the virus started twenty years earlier. Joel begins to build a

    father-like relationship with Ellie, feeling like he has a daughter again. When they finally reach

    the possible end of their journey at the hospital they’ve been traveling to, Joel is told that the

    surgery that they will perform to make the cure will kill Ellie. Now he is faced with an intense

    decision, Let Ellie die so there is a possibility of a cure, or barge into the surgery and save her. As

    you can imagine, Joel chooses to escape from imprisonment and rampage his way to the

    operation room. He kills the doctor and saves Ellie from being killed. Joel then lies to Ellie and

    says a cure wasn’t possible to make and the Fireflies, the organization attempting to make the

    cure, gave up. At the end of the show Ellie asks if this was true and Joel lies and tells her it is.

    Joel’s decision to save Ellie and stop the cure from being made is ethical egoism. This choice

    benefited him because he did not want to feel the pain of losing someone close to him again. He
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    had already lost his daughter long ago and now saw Ellie as someone super important to him;

    Someone he would do anything to protect.


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    Works Cited

    Shafer-Landau, Russ. Living Ethics: An Introduction with Readings. 2nd ed., Oxford University
    Press, 2022.

    “The Last of Us.” HBO, www.hbo.com/the-last-of-us.

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