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Originally Posted by whygohome?
How is Jesse any better than Walt?
I don't see how Walt dragged Jesse anywhere. Jesse is a grown man that wanted to get rich and knew that Walt was his ticket there. Things spiraled out of control due to walts growing arrogance and greed, but Jesse had every chance early on, when the body count was low, to get out, and he didnt. He had nothing keeping him there but his own greed. Now what had transpired in season 5 Jesse mostly was against and had nothing to do with, but season 1-4 he was a willing participant.
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Walt has progressively put his conscience aside throughout the course of the series while Jesse has grown a conscience especially toward his protection of children. Walt constantly rationalizes his actions and Jesse has developed a code that he struggles to keep intact as a result of his colleagues' actions.
Jesse has certainly made poor decisions but he has tried so hard to find his redemption and peace. I definitely think he has grown to be a better person than Walt. In fact, I think Jesse at heart was always a good kid who made incredibly stupid decisions - he got caught up in drug dealing not necessarily because of greed, but because he never applied himself when he should have, and so he went into the dealing side of the trade to keep his ends met.
When Walt re-entered his life, that's when things changed because Jesse never had aspirations to be the best at what he did. But with Walt as his partner, they became the best, and when you're the best is when the money really rolls in and by nature the violence follows. Jesse was too short sighted to really understand what comes with being the best, but once he did realize it, he suffered internally and I don't think he ever really tried to rationalize it. When they got ripped off by the Meth heads in Season 2, he had no desire at first to confront the situation and show them who was boss. Walt had to thoroughly convince him, and it was Walt who was a coward who wanted nothing to do with the clients, distributors or any of that. He asked Jesse to handle all of the bad side in his stead. Jesse didn't really want to handle it either, but he also didn't ask someone to do it for him.