Walt didn't give two shits about his customers getting good product. He made it pure to satisfy his own pride. He did it for the money, of course, but him caring about the product had nothing to do with who would ultimately obtain it.
Breaking Bad - Walt's mental state
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Walt didn't give two shits about his customers getting good product. He made it pure to satisfy his own pride. He did it for the money, of course, but him caring about the product had nothing to do with who would ultimately obtain it.
Well, by mental state, you have three different main categories.
1) Could he pass a mini-mental exam? Sure. In fact when he's evaluated later by a psychiatrist, he passes.
2) Does he possess certain qualities which challenge him, affect his decisions, and impair him to live life fully? Yes.
But so do most people to some degree. Probably 10% of folks are mentally impaired by some aspect of their medical condition. Most get by fine without medication though they could benefit from it.
You wouldn't believe how high the percentage of folks displaying sociopathic behaviour is truly. This probably plays a factor because many educators, physicians, lawyers, politicians could be diagnosed as sociopaths(now called Antisocial Personality Disorder). Walt here is clearly one.
http://www.cix.co.uk/~klockstone/spath.htm
Probably 1 in 25 is a sociopath. This is for a reference not an endorsement.
3) Has the cancer gone to his brain at any point in the show? Probably not.
He's been going to the oncologist. He's been having scans to help locate the tumors (which have been isolated to his lung). He's been having radiation and chemotherapy.
It's hardly one of the most popular episodes, but Jessie directly muses over a tumor going to his brain and affecting his judgement. Particularly because it becomes obsessive and he becomes affected by megalomania.
1) Could he pass a mini-mental exam? Sure. In fact when he's evaluated later by a psychiatrist, he passes.
2) Does he possess certain qualities which challenge him, affect his decisions, and impair him to live life fully? Yes.
But so do most people to some degree. Probably 10% of folks are mentally impaired by some aspect of their medical condition. Most get by fine without medication though they could benefit from it.
You wouldn't believe how high the percentage of folks displaying sociopathic behaviour is truly. This probably plays a factor because many educators, physicians, lawyers, politicians could be diagnosed as sociopaths(now called Antisocial Personality Disorder). Walt here is clearly one.
http://www.cix.co.uk/~klockstone/spath.htm
Probably 1 in 25 is a sociopath. This is for a reference not an endorsement.
3) Has the cancer gone to his brain at any point in the show? Probably not.
He's been going to the oncologist. He's been having scans to help locate the tumors (which have been isolated to his lung). He's been having radiation and chemotherapy.
It's hardly one of the most popular episodes, but Jessie directly muses over a tumor going to his brain and affecting his judgement. Particularly because it becomes obsessive and he becomes affected by megalomania.
I disagree. I think there was ample on screen evidence that Walt took great pride in his product and hated the thought of an inferior version of it being distributed as his "blue meth". Sure a lot of it had to do with his ego but that same ego is what also compelled him to attempt to make his product the best meth on the street.
Granted, he may not have cared about his customers, but I think he cared a great deal about the quality of his product.
From Walt's point of view, in the end, science was the only thing that never betrayed him. Chemistry is exact. His devotion to it had to be exact as well, and he was simply unable to produce a product that was inferior in any way. Ego, yes. Megalomania, yes. But science was his one true love, and Heisenberg gave him the opportunity to do what Walter White never could. He admitted as much to Skyler the day he died.
I was surprised with the finale. Since chemistry was his love, then I assumed that he'd use the toxin on himself, not on Lydia. Death by chemistry would have made more sense and in keeping with that theme. A massice overdose of blue meth would have been equally correct.
I could have seen Walt poisoning himself or jumping off a cliff or something if he had stayed at the cabin. But by the time he left, he had a whole agenda that included his death as part of the plan, but not by poison. Using the ricin on himself would not have fit his plans because that was how he would get Lydia.
As for taking the meth himself, that would have been massively out of character since Walt never used the stuff in all the time he made it. Jesse killing himself with meth would have made sense.
I don't think that cooking meth is acceptable, but I do think that if I made the decision to smoke meth it'd be my fault much more than the person who sold it to me. People need to take more responsibility for their own actions.
Walt certainly cared about the quality of his product. He took great personal pride that HE was the best chemist and best cook in the world and HE created an empire.
Also, Walt would have never killed himself. Maybe he would have let Jesse kill him because that fit his own perverse sense of justice. But I think if he had survived he was planning to surrender to the police.
Walt certainly cared about the quality of his product. He took great personal pride that HE was the best chemist and best cook in the world and HE created an empire.
Also, Walt would have never killed himself. Maybe he would have let Jesse kill him because that fit his own perverse sense of justice. But I think if he had survived he was planning to surrender to the police.
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