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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tarrasque Wrangler" data-source="post: 1808910" data-attributes="member: 7473">I think you have to look deeper into the subtext of the events. Sawyer was trying awfully hard to come across as the big macho guy on the island. I tacked up his killing of the bear as a combination of A) his probable ability to use a gun - might be a hunter or other enthusiast, and/or B) external events we aren't privy to yet. Whatever could bring a polar bear to the tropics and keep it alive could certainly kill it, too, and maybe the shooting was coincidental or meant to throw everyone off.    But as for killing the marshal, what that confirmed to me was that killing an animal and killing a man are psychologically not the same thing. Sawyer is no more of an executioner than Jack (up to that point at least), despite his macho posturing. Basically, he flinched.       At least on that point, I pretty sure it was implicit in that scene that Jack "finished off" the marshal. A recurring theme in that episode was that the survivors are not who they were on the mainland anymore; they were "in the wild", as Sawyer put it. One of the ideas that Jack had to come to grips with was that he would not be able to save everyone on the island, and certainly not the horribly wounded marshal. His Hippocratic oath was rendered moot. By mercy-killing the marshal (he goes in the tent, the marshal suddenly expires...you do the math <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious    :]" data-shortname=":]" />) Jack's undergoes an important transformation from idealist to realist.  I guess if you want to you can assign supernatural causes to everything that's happened so far, but I'm just taking a whack at it with Ockam's razor <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />.</blockquote>

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