Anything and everything will be left on the line to be fought over. In most cases, whoever is standing last will tend to be victorious; temporally to say the least. However, for the sniper, being dead will be just as much as a victory than for being alive. The very end of O’Flaherty’s story displays a nail biting scene between the sniper and the un-named enemy trying to take the life of one another. By using strategy, the sniper figures out a way to fool the enemy and kills him.
Self-defense seems to be the key reason for harming, or even killing another person. However, when a soldier kills an innocent civilian it is not because of self- defense. This action, then, can not be justified. There are excuses that a soldier can make towards their reason of killing a person that has not necessarily attacked them. An example of such as excuse would be that they mistakenly thought they were being attacked by a civilian.
But when he decided to go to the war, he killed hundreds of people. One thing in defense of Private Huber, is that he was correct about getting punished. He did not violate any German laws, but he still committed murder. For that, I feel he is
In “The Most Dangerous Game,” Rainsford kills the General out of pure self-defense. General Zaroff was the man who started “the most dangerous game,” when Rainsford objected. The only choice Rainsford had, in order to get himself off the island alive, was to kill him.
People would have seen the explosion as the loss of a building, and not as the graphic act of terror that it is. Simply bombing the building at night would not have gotten as much recognition at all. The death toll is what brings the powerful and urgent meaning to what the Patriots stood for and there was no other way to convey it. This impact was supposed to alter the reality of the public and motivate them to take up arms and join the cause that the insurgents were preaching. McVeigh and his terrorist organization wanted to retaliate against the federal government for the massacre at Waco and they felt as if the deaths of hundreds of innocent people were a realistic way to do that.
The people that Shelton killed are considered combatants because they support they governmental system and work with it. Based on Just War Theory, the proportionality of killing these people is that their deaths are outweighed by the justice that will bring to the judicial system. Shelton believes the system to be corrupt, focusing instead on conviction rates rather than making sure the right person is placed behind bars. By killing these people Shelton can put a new mindset into the “system” because those affected by the killings will want the right man punished rather since they now know how it feels to be wronged. All the killings made by Shelton were to people who were directly showed how flawed the system was.
He realizes that there is no clear cut enemy in war: “the enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed.” It occurs to Yossarian that if he is going to pursue his right to life, he will have to worry about Colonel Cathcart trying to kill him as well as the Germans. However, a soldier should not have to be alarmed that his allies are trying to organize his demise. The fact that he is apprehensive serves to expose the flaws in the concept of war we currently hold. Had Snowden’s death not occurred, Yossarain may never come to this
Robert E. Lee had sent a series of attacks at us which our line was hard to break. I was in my line face to face to the Confederate soldier with my gun pointed at someone I don’t know but was willing to take his life the same as he does me. I opened fire and brought him down with a single shot, the next line of men on their side came forward and prepared to fire. At this moment I felt a chill go down my spine and when I looked up from reloading my gun I could see a mean glare coming from the other side. He wanted to kill me, I wanted to run but I knew that I couldn’t.
As the men stood together, face to face, their guns pointed at each other. The only exploit to do was, kill or be killed himself. Hardy, the writer uses repetition as a sign of hesitation, in the third stanza, as he pauses and repeats the word: ‘because - Because…’ It shows his reflection of guilt and inner conflict for killing someone. The third line of this stanza introduces more repetition, this time of the word 'foe' (enemy); the use of phrases such as 'Just so' and 'of
Die for your country Moral contradiction in a moral principle: utilitarianism. Homicide can be an appalling achievement, but while killing under utilitarianism jurisdiction of war can dismiss the horrific matters of taking lives. When putting death in a context of “dying for your country” the direness of the situation transforms into an admirable one. Propaganda, and the sociological aspects of not going to war, utterly employs all men into the army in complete blindness of reality. This is portrayed through WW1, in books such as Quite on the Western Front.