Walter White is a Piece of Shit

BEWARE: MAJOR SPOILER BELOW. DON’T READ THIS IF YOU HAVEN’T CAUGHT UP ON BREAKING BAD. I MEAN IT. DON’T.

This is a response to: “Walt is still a good guy at heart.”

I don’t believe for a second that he’s still a good guy at heart but even if I did, being a good guy “deep down” means absolutely nothing to me or to anyone else. What matter are our actions. What has he done lately to show us that he deserves the benefit of the doubt? Cry a little bit? Plead for Hank’s life (even though, there’s no way in hell he thought they wouldn’t have killed him so he probably just did it so Hank died thinking he wasn’t such a flaming sack of shit)? Order Jesse’s death to be painless? Poison a little boy a little bit? Steal but not kill his daughter?

Sure, this started as him trying to help his family, but once he threatened his own wife and gave up his daughter, that kind of went out the window. This is about him. He said it before when he told us that money is the only thing that drives him. He sold his stock in that company and felt guilty. Yeah, the cooking was for his family at first but then he realized the money and power that came with it and suddenly that potential for power, that he thought he had lost, was within his reach and this time, no one could take it away from him.

I think that part of the reason people still defend him is because he’s good at acting like he feels bad about all the stuff he’s done, but he doesn’t give a shit. A good person doesn’t do terrible things, feel “bad” about them, and then brag about for “street cred” or use them to intimidate or threaten someone; like he did by telling Skyler, she’d end up like Hank. I can’t feel bad for a person who doesn’t feel bad about all the terrible shit they do. Or about someone who does all this in the first place. So while some people feel bad for him, I feel bad for everyone who’s ever come in contact with him. He’s a cancer to everyone around him (pun not intended but it works) and anyone will be lucky to make it out of this show alive.  The only time we see him showing any kind of remorse is when he’s trying to manipulate Jesse, so it’s obviously an act. Walter is a sociopath that deserves zero sympathy.

Some people can say that giving up his daughter is probably the best thing for her so she won’t grow up in such a fucked up environment but 1. He doesn’t get to make that decision after being the world’s worst parent. 2. He didn’t do it to protect her; he did it to punish Skyler for defying him. *Correction: I didn't know he left a note with the baby beacause I was too busy screaming. Still, Walt's a POS*

Just because we’ve seen him around people who are arguably worse than he is (Gus Fring, Mike, that old guy with the bell) doesn’t mean that he isn’t a piece of shit. None of these guys would use their families as bargaining chips and they all abided by some kind of code. I wouldn’t argue that Walt is any better or worse than them but at this point in the game he is one of them. And he killed literally all of them so, you know, that counts for something too.

Overall, I think the argument that he’s doing this for his family is probably the stupidest thing anyone could say to me. The best thing for his family would have been to I don’t know, take his friends money at the beginning of the show and not start cooking meth. Or he could have just hid some of the money for his family turned himself in. He’s terminally ill anyway! What would he lose by getting caught? His reputation which means more to him than any family can. He made that clear when he ditched them, stole and abandoned his daughter and went with Saul’s “guy,” leaving his family to pick up the pieces of the home he broke.

Those are my thoughts but I wanna hear what you guys think, so comment below. Don’t be assholes to each other or to me please. Be cool. Sorry for the grammar errors.

Stay calm,

Yani