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A lesson I learned from the character of Jax Teller


You can be a total jerk if you want (because Jax was total human garbage), but you have to know when it's time to be a real man (yes, whenever it was time to be smart and human, he always seemed to make the best choices).

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 Like the time he injected Wendy with heroin, who had been clean at this point?

Way to step up your game, like a real man and make great choices!

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Like I said, he was a scumbag, and did a lot of impulsive and dumb choices. But from time to time, he really knew when it was time to be a honorable human being. Like when Tara wanted to leave with the kids, he could have stopped her. Instead, he wanted to turn himself in and let her go. He acted like a real man would have. It ended with a tragedy, but it wasn't his fault. He couldn't control the fact that his mother was an impulsive psycho bitch.

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What he did to Wendy was beyond a dumb choice and far surpasses the "scumbag" classification. Nothing likable or redeemable about those actions.

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I love what you took away from the character and it was pretty much the same as I did. He really was a scummy dirtbag for most of the series but he id have his genuine moments where he kinda snapped out of the cub mode and actually made decisions best upon hi family and did act like the best person he could based on his upbringing and the life he had always been surrounded by.

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(yes, whenever it was time to be smart and human, he always seemed to make the best choices)


He definitely did not. Maybe once or twice he made an intelligent decision, but every other time he was killing people for no reason and putting others in danger.

I think I read that he killed over 40 people throughout the series. Are you saying that all of those deaths were the best choice he could have made?

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He definitely did not. Maybe once or twice he made an intelligent decision, but every other time he was killing people for no reason and putting others in danger.

I think I read that he killed over 40 people throughout the series. Are you saying that all of those deaths were the best choice he could have made?


You're basically describing every character on the show and there were many that had zero decency that he had even if he was a scumbag biker for most of the series. He lost his best friend and his wife he had loved since he was a teenager, of course he was affected by it and it eventually did him in.

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