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Reasons are not solely responsible for justifying moral decisions. Reason is just the power to think in a logical way but for a sound logical decision to be made an “X-Factor” is also required; commonly known as emotion. Logical decisions undertaken by people of today’s complex world are almost always based upon reason. Emotions are generally controlled in making these decisions. However, there are some decisions which must be taken based largely upon a combination of both reason and emotion, and it is found that these decisions are the ones that impact the greatest magnitude of social change.

Liberation is definitely a moral decision. Approximately 60 years ago, Indian Father, Mahatma Gandhi began to envision living in an India “free from the British Raj” and began to devise a way of achieving this dream peacefully. We see the emotion in the dream brought out in Gandhi’s love for his country, as can be easily seen by his passionate speeches advocating the method of non-cooperation. His method proves itself to be logical to us, the knower, as we agree that adopting a more physically violent means would lead to the Indian peoples being perceived as barbarians the vast majority of the world.

This is also easily reflected in the plays of William Shakespeare. For example, in the play ‘Julius Caesar’, both Brutus and Mark Antony used emotion and logic to make their moral decisions, that of killing Caesar and revenging his death respectively. Brutus expresses his emotions in the line “I killed Caesar not because I loved him less, but because I loved Rome more.” The reason behind the murder he also prevents, saying that Caesar was about to become a tyrant. Antony’s emotion is easily reflected in his soliloquy after laying eyes upon Caesar’s corpse, he swears “that a curse shall light upon the limbs of men”, showing extreme anger. Antony’s decision also seems to be based partially upon reason, as he makes direct reference to the...