Justifiable Homicide podcast

The podcast discusses the effects of traumatic events on innocence using examples from literature and real-life situations. It mentions how characters in "Lord of the Flies" and "The Outsiders" lose their innocence due to extreme circumstances. The podcast also refers to an article about survivors of a plane crash who resorted to cannibalism to survive. The discussion highlights how traumatic events can change a person's worldview and lead to unexpected choices. The hosts then ponder how they would cope in a similar situation, expressing their aversion to cannibalism and their desire to maintain peace. Hi, you're listening to Justifiable Homicide by Isabel Weigar and Ella Colbert. Today we'll be talking about the effects of traumatic events and how they affect your innocence. First, we'll be talking about Lord of the Flies by William Golding. The story is about a group of young British boys who get into a plane crash on an uncharted island where they have to learn how to survive without any adults. While on the island, the boys slowly start to change and fend for themselves. This led to the killings of two boys on the island, Piggy and Simon. On the last page of the book, page 249, it says, Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true wise friend called Piggy. This shows how Ralph realizes his loss of innocence from all that's happened on the island. This book obviously shows the extremes of a situation, but it shows how people can change and see new sides of themselves in worse situations. This especially happens to kids when they haven't gotten familiar with the true nature of the world and humanity, and when they don't know themselves all that well. That makes a really good point. This also relates to The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. The story follows the feud between two major social groups, the Socs and the Greasers. After Johnny, who was one of the Greasers, was put into a situation where he needed to defend himself and his friend against the Socs, he went to extreme measures, which ended up with him killing one of the Socs and permanently scarring him mentally. I think Johnny went on to feel a great amount of guilt about killing a Soc. Throughout the book, we see Johnny struggle with his mental health because of his living situation. Going through something as traumatic as killing someone would worsen most people's mental state by a lot. I think he makes some really good points, and it did worsen his mental state and pushed him over the edge. We'll be back after this short break. Choose Francidol for your next psychotic break. Francidol treats those with psychosis. Some side effects may include uncontrollable movements of the face, hands, and feet, cardiovascular effects, sedation, dizziness, dry mouth, reduced brain volume, and shortened life span. Welcome back. Another thing that relates is in this article, survivors of 1972 Uruguay plane crash revisit their tale of going to the extreme to live. In this article, there was no food for the people, and to survive, they decide it would be best to eat the bodies of the dead. It says, after long discussions and out of desperation, the survivors said the group came to a painful decision to harvest the bodies of the dead passengers for food. It was their only option for survival. This quote from the article shows that the survivors had to make a difficult decision that resulted in their loss of innocence. Those are some really good points. The survivors don't delve into the topic of how they survived through cannibalism too much, but a traumatic event like that will completely shift your world view, which is what a lot of people see as losing your innocence. If I had to go through a situation like that, I don't know how I'd be able to live with myself. Throughout this podcast, we have discovered that usually when someone quote unquote loses their innocence, it means that they went through some sort of traumatic eye opening event, which shows them a darker side of themselves or the world around them. In dire situations, people end up making unexpected choices. Like in Lord of the Flies, Ralph loses his innocence because of the events that occurred on the island. In the article when people have to resort to cannibalism to survive, and in The Outsiders when Johnny uses the excuse of self-defense to kill someone. This podcast question is, if you were to be deserted somewhere, how would you cope and what would you sacrifice to survive? What would you do, Ella? Personally, cannibalism would be my very, very last option, but I know that if I was in a group of people, I would try my best to keep peace between us so I don't end up in a situation like Lord of the Flies. What about you? I think I would be the same and cannibalism would be one of my last options. I think that I would try and help all the others as much as possible and keep us all safe and living until we get rescued, but honestly, not everything ends up that way. Thank you for listening to Justifiable Homicide. Thank you for listening to Justifiable Homicide.