wrestling with one's conscience theme
A character questions the propriety of an intended action and decides to go with their own instincts about what is morally right and wrong.
Examples
Captain Picard and his crew finally rejected the fake orders they had received to kill defenceless aliens in tng5x14 "Conundrum", because the orders went against good conscience.
25 total · 3 choice · 16 major · 6 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| ds95x18 | choice | Quark about taking the money and 28 million dying as a result |
| ds96x19 | choice | Benjamin learned that his the road to hell was payed with good intentions |
| tng5x14 | choice | Picard :: Picard about following his orders to destroy the Lysian base |
| ahp4x17 | major | Jan had qualms about whether to commit insurance fraud or not. |
| ahp4x30 | major | Irving wrestled with his conscience after believing his lies had gotten an innocent young man into trouble with the law. |
| ahp5x28 | major | William wasn't sure whether he really ought to go along with Munro's plot to have him avenge the murder of Munro's wife for a cool $3000. |
| ahp6x22 | major | Father Amion, who disapproved of gambling, wrestled with his conscience before betting his life savings on a "sure thing" at the horse races in order to pay for essential repairs to the parish church ceiling. |
| as1985e1x19 | major | One interpretation of the story is that the disfigured apparition was some aspect of Jonathan's rather vain and callous personality that manifested physically. In the end Jonathan somehow became the phantom that it seemed he had been hallucinating, implying that they were somehow one and the same. |
| ds96x08 | major | Bareil Antos (mirror) over the thought of changing the crooked life he had led |
| movie: Gigi (1958) | major | After bringing Gigi to Maxim's restaurant, Gaston realized that his keeping of her as a courtesan was dishonorable. He felt that he could not treat her as such and resolved to seek her hand in marriage. |