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    The film "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" tells the story of an 8-year-old German boy named Bruno whose father is a commandant in Nazi Germany and moves the family next to a Jewish concentration camp. Bruno befriends a Jewish boy named Shmuel through a fence separating the camp from the outside. The film examines the Holocaust from the perspective of an innocent child and shows how Bruno and others perceive the atrocities committed against the Jewish people at Auschwitz.

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    The film "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" tells the story of an 8-year-old German boy named Bruno whose father is a commandant in Nazi Germany and moves the family next to a Jewish concentration camp. Bruno befriends a Jewish boy named Shmuel through a fence separating the camp from the outside. The film examines the Holocaust from the perspective of an innocent child and shows how Bruno and others perceive the atrocities committed against the Jewish people at Auschwitz.

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    Ethical Theories in The Boy in The Striped Pyjamas

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    Tashka Janheille Pascual
    The film "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" tells the story of an 8-year-old German boy named Bruno whose father is a commandant in Nazi Germany and moves the family next to a Jewish concentration camp. Bruno befriends a Jewish boy named Shmuel through a fence separating the camp from the outside. The film examines the Holocaust from the perspective of an innocent child and shows how Bruno and others perceive the atrocities committed against the Jewish people at Auschwitz.

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    Directed by: Mark Herman

    Summary
     The film “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” is a World War II
    historical film about an 8-year old boy named Bruno and a
    Jewish concentration camp prisoner Shmuel. The film tackles
    the atrocities committed by the Nazi Germany and how it is
    being perceived both in the eyes of an innocent child,
    Schutzstaffel (SS) Soldiers and regular German citizens. The plot
    revolves around each of the aforementioned types of people
    deal with the Jews of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp and
    how they lived during their incarceration.
    Ethical Theories in the Film
     EGOISM
    You should act in your own best interest.
     UTILITARIANISM
    You should act to create the greatest good for the greatest number.
     NATURAL LAW: RACISM
    Presumes biological inferiority of some groups; used to justify slavery, legal inequality and limit
    access to goods
     RELATIVISM
    Do what your society says is right
     SUBJECTIVISM
    Do what you think is right
     EMOTIVISM
    Do what you feel is right
     ABSOLUTISM
    Rules or principles have no exceptions, context and the particular are not considered
    Ethical Issues/Dilemmas
     DISHONESTY
     ELSA’S DESPAIR

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