The Good Place (TV Series)
Rhonda, Diana, Jake, and Trent (2018)
William Jackson Harper: Chidi Anagonye
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Quotes
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Jason Mendoza : Forget this plan! I say we just huck a Molotov cocktail and run through the portal.
Chidi Anagonye : I think we should go with Michael's plan.
Jason Mendoza : I'm telling you, Molotov cocktails work. Any time I had a problem, and I threw a Molotov cocktail, boom! Right away, I had a different problem.
Eleanor Shellstrop : He makes a strong case.
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Jason Mendoza : I know what my secret identity is.
Eleanor Shellstrop : You cannot be Blake Bortles.
Jason Mendoza : Fine. Then I'll be Jake...
Chidi Anagonye : Don't say Jortles.
Jason Mendoza : ...Jortles! And I work in the Molotov Cocktail department.
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Chidi Anagonye : I'm gonna be sick, and I don't want to go back to the bathroom because they put mirrors in the toilet, and that makes you really confront what you're doing!
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Eleanor Shellstrop : Look. Moral particularism says there are no fixed rules that work in every situation. Like, let's say you promised your friend you'd go to the movies. But then your mom suddenly gets rushed to the ER. Your boy Kant would say never break a promise. Go see "Chronicles of Riddick." Doesn't matter if your mom gets lonely and steals a bucket of Vicodin from the nurse's closet.
Chidi Anagonye : Real example?
Eleanor Shellstrop : Yep! But a moral particularist like me... I'm one now; I just decided... would say there's no absolute rule. You have to choose your actions based on the particular situation and right now, we are in a pretty bonkers situation.
Chidi Anagonye : I don't think I can change what I believe just like that!
Eleanor Shellstrop : And I didn't think I would ever be at a cocktail party in literal Hell, lecturing my teacher/ex-lover about moral particularism, but life throws you curveballs, bro! And need I remind you it was doing things your way that made you end up here.
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Eleanor Shellstrop : Look... if you don't want to lie because it conflicts with your moral principles, I get it. No one's going to be mad at you.
Chidi Anagonye : Really?
Eleanor Shellstrop : No, dumbass! I'm lying to make you feel better. See? Sometimes lying is awesome.
[gasps]
Eleanor Shellstrop : Plus I just said "dumbass". Oh, cursing, how I've missed you.
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Chidi Anagonye : Look, Eleanor, our goal here is to appear in front of a judge who is going to judge us. What if I lie down here and I lose 12 points, and then we get in front of the Judge, and I'm 12 points short? Or what if the Judge won't even take our case at all because we lied to get there? Kant says that lying is always wrong, and I follow that maxim.
Eleanor Shellstrop : So you can't even lie to demons? They're trying to torture us, man. We're behind enemy lines!
Chidi Anagonye : Well, principles aren't principles when you pick and choose when you're going to follow them. I won't lie about who I am.
Eleanor Shellstrop : Okay. I understand, and I'm cool with it.
Chidi Anagonye : You're lying right now, aren't you?
Eleanor Shellstrop : Yes. I want to strangle you.
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Eleanor Shellstrop : Hear me out. What if lying is ethical in this situation? What if certain actions aren't universally good or bad? Like Jonathan Dancy says.
Chidi Anagonye : Jonathan Dancy? Are you talking about moral particularism? We never even covered that. You read on your own?
Eleanor Shellstrop : You think just because I'm a straight hottie I can't read philosophy for fun?
