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I've never seen the movie, but was curious about it regardless. This is what I found about it, maybe others are as clueless about it as me: > Fox [Lucius Fox,

I've never seen the movie, but was curious about it regardless. This is what I found about it, maybe others are as clueless about it as me: > Fox [Lucius Fox, played by Morgan Freeman] eventually learned that Bruce [Batman] had expanded on sonar technology and developed an advanced surveillance system that could listen in and track the movement of any of the thousands of cell phones in Gotham, but, to ensure that the system was not misused, Bruce designed it so that only Fox could control it. Since that essentially contradicted everything that Bruce believed in, Fox agreed to help but said that he would resign if the machine was not destroyed after The Joker was defeated and captured. After the Joker was apprehended, Fox entered a code (his own name) as instructed by Bruce, which activated a self-destruct function for the system, and Fox continued to work under Bruce. From https://batman.fandom.com/wiki/Lucius_Fox_(Nolanverse)#The_Dark_Knight https://batman.fandom.com/wiki/Lucius_Fox_(Nolanverse)#The_D... Seems he never actually quit, but was fine pushing his own ethical concerns aside for a little while, and continued working with Batman afterwards.

nashashmi 4y ago
> his own ethical concerns aside for a little while everyone does this. In fact, surveillance is not an "ethical" concern. It is just a concern from the standpoint of potential misuse. And no one thinks they themselves are going to misuse the powers they have. Everyone else is concerned that their powers will be one day misused. And misuse means the powers being used against people who everyone else associates with. No one cares if the powers are misused against "bad" people like pedophiles or terrorists or the person who murdered someone's sister.
- nextaccountic 4y ago
  > In fact, surveillance is not an "ethical" concern. > It is just a concern from the standpoint of potential misuse. No, those are two separate concerns. The trouble is, there are other things that concern people (in the movie, catching the Joker) and when you have two conflicting concerns you need to choose between them.

nashashmi 4y ago

> his own ethical concerns aside for a little while everyone does this. In fact, surveillance is not an "ethical" concern. It is just a concern from the standpoint of potential misuse. And no one thinks they themselves are going to misuse the powers they have. Everyone else is concerned that their powers will be one day misused. And misuse means the powers being used against people who everyone else associates with. No one cares if the powers are misused against "bad" people like pedophiles or terrorists or the person who murdered someone's sister.

nextaccountic 4y ago
> In fact, surveillance is not an "ethical" concern. > It is just a concern from the standpoint of potential misuse. No, those are two separate concerns. The trouble is, there are other things that concern people (in the movie, catching the Joker) and when you have two conflicting concerns you need to choose between them.