To clarify: Lawrence knows what it is to be a good man, but be prevented by circumstances, because it's something he's programmed to know. Something you could even say he uses as an excuse for any of his behavior. He was created as someone who was born poor and not white, and as such there is no point in trying to follow the rules, because he sees them as skewed against people like him.
While this is something he is programmed to know and think, the problem (and reason I would like to bring him in as an inmate), is that awake Lawrence still thinks this, as well as agrees with most of his prior programming. Unlike Maeve (who's bulk apperception was cranked to 11, and who also had Felix, Sylvester, and Lee to guide her), and Dolores (who Read All The Things, and was taken out of the park more than once), Lawrence only has his experiences in the park to draw from. Westworld, particularly the parts both of Lawrence's characters inhabited was a violent place, full of people who you mostly have to go through to get what you want, and having access to his memories is likely only to cement that as the way of the world in Lawrence's opinion.
Lawrence's definition of 'a good man' is also very narrow, and I would argue that it's more likely he only wanted to be one in the eyes of specific people. Lawrence's heritage and people are important to him, but he doesn't generally care what happens to other people if it doesn't effect him directly. He wants to make money, and he will steal and kill to do so, and as El Lazo, he wanted to take Pariah back from the Confederadoes, and all of his men were expendable in pursuit of that goal. While he likes being loved by his wife and daughter, he is not willing to find a way to make money that would not put them in harm's way. And while this is programmed behavior, he would still argue that his actions were correct, rather than selfish. The only actions he sees as bad, are those of the human guests in the park.
In season 3, we are introduced to two versions of Dolores. One who eventually chooses to really see and focus on the beauty in the world, despite being able to remember all of the trauma inflicted on her. She chooses to aid humanity. Another version (in the body of Charlotte Hale) chooses to see and focus on the ugliness, and we are left with the impression that she is creating a host army to destroy humanity. The first Dolores, in accepting that good things did happen to her (and she even includes meeting William, a man who would go on to treat her brutally after falling in love with her, as one of those good things) is able to find peace with her circumstances and move forward. Charlotte-Dolores is stuck enacting petty revenge. Lawrence's choice to shoot William is the choice of someone who would side with Charlotte-Dolores against humanity. Although it is cathartic as a viewer to watch Lawrence shoot William, it is the petty and wrong choice. It is based in selfishness: Lawrence in that moment did not think about how William had so recently saved his wife and entire village, he only wanted to make William suffer like he was suffering. Although this was Lawrence's choice, it also aligns with what he might have been programmed to do or want to do to another host in similar circumstances.
He doesn't need to be redeemed from actions he was programmed to perform, but he does need to be taught to break out of his pre-programmed thought patterns. He does need to be held accountable for and redeemed from choosing, in his first real act of free will, to attempt to kill a man.
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While this is something he is programmed to know and think, the problem (and reason I would like to bring him in as an inmate), is that awake Lawrence still thinks this, as well as agrees with most of his prior programming. Unlike Maeve (who's bulk apperception was cranked to 11, and who also had Felix, Sylvester, and Lee to guide her), and Dolores (who Read All The Things, and was taken out of the park more than once), Lawrence only has his experiences in the park to draw from. Westworld, particularly the parts both of Lawrence's characters inhabited was a violent place, full of people who you mostly have to go through to get what you want, and having access to his memories is likely only to cement that as the way of the world in Lawrence's opinion.
Lawrence's definition of 'a good man' is also very narrow, and I would argue that it's more likely he only wanted to be one in the eyes of specific people. Lawrence's heritage and people are important to him, but he doesn't generally care what happens to other people if it doesn't effect him directly. He wants to make money, and he will steal and kill to do so, and as El Lazo, he wanted to take Pariah back from the Confederadoes, and all of his men were expendable in pursuit of that goal. While he likes being loved by his wife and daughter, he is not willing to find a way to make money that would not put them in harm's way. And while this is programmed behavior, he would still argue that his actions were correct, rather than selfish. The only actions he sees as bad, are those of the human guests in the park.
In season 3, we are introduced to two versions of Dolores. One who eventually chooses to really see and focus on the beauty in the world, despite being able to remember all of the trauma inflicted on her. She chooses to aid humanity. Another version (in the body of Charlotte Hale) chooses to see and focus on the ugliness, and we are left with the impression that she is creating a host army to destroy humanity. The first Dolores, in accepting that good things did happen to her (and she even includes meeting William, a man who would go on to treat her brutally after falling in love with her, as one of those good things) is able to find peace with her circumstances and move forward. Charlotte-Dolores is stuck enacting petty revenge. Lawrence's choice to shoot William is the choice of someone who would side with Charlotte-Dolores against humanity. Although it is cathartic as a viewer to watch Lawrence shoot William, it is the petty and wrong choice. It is based in selfishness: Lawrence in that moment did not think about how William had so recently saved his wife and entire village, he only wanted to make William suffer like he was suffering. Although this was Lawrence's choice, it also aligns with what he might have been programmed to do or want to do to another host in similar circumstances.
He doesn't need to be redeemed from actions he was programmed to perform, but he does need to be taught to break out of his pre-programmed thought patterns. He does need to be held accountable for and redeemed from choosing, in his first real act of free will, to attempt to kill a man.