Is Steve a hipocrite?

Danny reviews · Post by **Danny reviews** » 02 Sep 2022, 04:29

Steve was not a hypocrite to me. Only the drugs aspect that I didn't like. Roxy was his partner in crime

Shakon90 · Post by **Shakon90** » 02 Sep 2022, 04:52

Steve is not a hypocrite. He's just a psycho to me

De law · Post by **De law** » 02 Sep 2022, 08:29

I wouldn't say that he's entirely a hypocrite. He's human first before anything and as such should have flaws. I think that society sets the bar too high for policemen.

Mosele 19 · Post by **Mosele 19** » 02 Sep 2022, 13:10

Steve was not a hypocrite and he never acted like one. The only part I don't like is the fact that some of his decisions were made by Roxy.

Ailakhu Yusau Aizhebiomon · Post by **Ailakhu Yusau Aizhebiomon** » 02 Sep 2022, 23:55

I think some of his actions were hypocritic. For instance, he smokes pot with Roxy, Cal and Andy, and Heater and even escorted Tommy to a drug deal yet he busts people who deal in it. For me, that's hypocrisy!

Philip Mahlangu · Post by **Philip Mahlangu** » 03 Sep 2022, 16:43

I also thought that Steve was a hypocrite in many ways. Even when he joined the police force, he became what he was fighting against because he couldn't clearly draw a line between good bad. Granted, he eventually got his way and got the people at the top arrested, but for the most part, I didn't really like his dance between right and wrong.

third agbata · Post by **third agbata** » 03 Sep 2022, 20:51

I don't really have a say. But i think Steve moves in this book was a kind of two-faced. Although the attributes fits his role a lot.

Nweze Raalchukwu1 · Post by **Nweze Raalchukwu1** » 04 Sep 2022, 07:34

I suppose he justified it because he sees it as something trivial. But he was a hypocrite.

IbrahimOtegbade · Post by **IbrahimOtegbade** » 04 Sep 2022, 07:45

This is a big ethical question. I think the reason he does all that is because he knows that the system is corrupt already. Arresting his brother won't help because the senior officers in the department are part of the crime. Also, arresting his brother or friends because of it would be a big mistake, and it will be used against him as a weakness. He'll have to negotiate with them. And that means reaching a compromise. That is what he has been avoiding from the start.

Claire Twy · Post by **Claire Twy** » 05 Sep 2022, 10:20

It depends on the way you look at it, because to Steve, arresting people by force at that protest was wrong. Being a hypocrite to me means saying that you won't do something and then doing it, but we already knew that Steve disapproved of the use of force by the cops, so to me, I don't think he's a hypocrite. Also, it's his girlfriend, of course he's going to cut her some slack. Regarding the drugs, I think that's more hypocritical, because he's supposed to uphold the law and he even warns his friends about it.

Riya Sarkar · Post by **Riya Sarkar** » 05 Sep 2022, 14:33

Steve always had his character flaws. Looking the other way for Roxy and his brother were always the biggest ones. I don't think that necessarily makes him a hypocrite.

Ian Muchiri · Post by **Ian Muchiri** » 05 Sep 2022, 15:41

I think that he is a hypocrite in a way because he lacks principle, especially when it comes to smoking dope.

fire_spice · Post by **fire_spice** » 05 Sep 2022, 21:17

Steve wasn't fighting the police for fighting crime. Steve was fighting the police for harassing people illegally.

Missing Person · Post by **Missing Person** » 06 Sep 2022, 09:37

I think the main theme of Wild World is doing the morally right thing as a police officer, and Steve is doing the morally right thing by not upholding the law by arresting Roxy and her friends for smoking pot. In my opinion, the narrative never suggests that there is something morally wrong with smoking pot. If Steve were to arrest Roxy and her friends for smoking pot then that would lead to Roxy and her friends getting a criminal record. In the long run, this might ruin Roxy's and her friends' lives.

This would have been made worse if it were Roxy's mother, instead of Steve, who was financially supporting Roxy. If Roxy's mother was the one who financially supported her and Roxy was arrested for smoking pot, and she had to call her mother to bail her out of jail, I would expect Roxy's mother to refuse to help her and to stop paying her tuition fees and apartment rent. This didn't happen in the story, but if it did it would have emphasized how important it is for Steve to disregard the law whenever it would violate his sense of moral duty especially when his friends' well-being was on the line.

I believe that throughout the story Steve is forced to choose between doing the morally right thing and upholding the law, time and time again Steve chooses to do the morally right thing instead of upholding the law. I actually admired the way Steve prioritized his moral values over upholding American law. And I don't see a good reason why a kind-hearted cop should follow laws as petty as the American anti-marijuana laws.

Regard003 · Post by **Regard003** » 06 Sep 2022, 10:14

I won't say Steve is an hypocrite, he did his best. He didn't follow the multitude at work, he didn't let the power rule him. He even warned his brother about selling dope. It really won't be easy for him to arrest his girlfriend and friends. I wouldn't have if I was in his shoes. He made a difference as much as he could.