Cobb Is To Blame For Mal's Deception

During the majority of the movie Cobb and his team spend time in somebody else’s subconscious without that person’s knowledge. The reason they are there is because they are hired to implant an idea into Fischer’s mind. To be precise they drug Robert Fischer, attach themselves and him to a machine that will allow them to share a dream and repeat this until they have reached a third dream level in order to plant an idea in Fischer’s subconscious that will cause him to break up his father’s business empire. This idea will remain firmly lodged in Fischer’s brain, without him knowing that it is not his own idea. This raises the important question about the ethics of idea-giving and consent thereof. Furthermore I will investigate whether, and to what extent, Cobb can be blamed for Mal’s death.
The most common form of idea-giving is teaching. It happens daily in a variety of situations ranging from school to home life, leisure time activities and much more. Being taught new information is necessary in order to learn and evolve. The main difference is that when someone teaches us something we know that that information, or idea, is coming from that person. For example when a friend tells us not to think about pink elephants that is exactly the image we see in our minds. However, contrarily to inception, we know that is not our own idea. As Daniel P. Malloy puts it: “The act of inception is about the ideas that you didn’t
Fischer does not know he will be drugged. He does not know that the men who drugged him will enter his mind. And most importantly, he is unaware that he will be given an idea that will define him for the rest of his life. One can argue that Fischer “gave himself the idea”, but under normal conditions he would never have had that idea. Instead, Cobb and his team created an artificial environment which would ensure that the seed of the idea that they planted in Fisher’s mind would