There is a moral difference between Shelton’s killing of his attackers and that of his other victims. Darby and Ames caused personal harm to Shelton and thus gave him the moral right to try and prevent any other future pain that could be caused by these men, but the other victims were combatants in the war that Shelton waged against the “system”. When looking at Darby and Ames, Shelton takes a more utilitarian approach when dealing with their killings. The government “system” is supposed to punish those who are wrong. But in the trial of Darby and Ames, only Ames was punished severely while Darby was allowed to go free.
Antony Sher felt as though Macbeth was closer to the first knife murderer, showing guilt for his murders. Sher’s theory on Macbeth being “war crazy” seems to be on target with what I had thought. His killing in war probably destroyed his sanity. Sher also seems to believe that playing the part of Macbeth is
Koch’s intellectual strategy works on the emotional, rational and logical aspects of human thinking and deduction. For example, he brilliantly disables the alignment and compassion one might hear in a convicted murderer’s pleading words as he faces execution, “killing is wrong…. It was wrong when I did it and it is wrong when you do it”. (para 1) For some people this quote from a convicted murderer seems to compel a sense of
Colonel Jessep is then convicted of the murder of Santiago, although he never understands his responsibility for the crime committed. Similar to the movie, Milgram’s The Perils of Obedience discusses the same issues of obedience to authority and how far people will go in pleasing their authority figure even if it means ignoring their own beliefs and morals. Milgram observes through a personal experiment that people will go to extreme measures to please
Miner refers to dentists as holy mouth men and bathrooms as shrines for odd ritual practices. His language is clearly satirical and creates the notion of the "Nacirema" as vain and self obsessed. Also, they seem to be a masochistic society built around willingly subjecting themselves to pain and torture. The “Nacirema” knowingly allow “medicine men” and “holy-mouth-men” to perform debilitating painful procedures to prevent the unavoidable decay of their mouths and bodies. Miner makes subtle comedic reference to the classic stereotype of doctors having atrocious handwriting when he writes, "write them down in an ancient and secret language."
The Answerability and Moral Responsibility of Robert Alton Harris Andrew Burant As a new member for the jury of Robert Alton Harris my purpose is to offer a verdict as to whether or not the defendant is guilty. Since the previous trial was breached through a technicality, I must reevaluate the course of the defendant’s past actions in order to see if he could potentially be innocent. In the previous trial many of the jurists believed that Robert Alton Harris was guilty. As a result, they forced the defendant to be sentenced to death because of his cruelty against John Mayeski and Michael Baker. They felt that the defendant chose to murder these boys on his own volition; there were never any external circumstances which coerced him into
Perry had some mental problems throughout the book but he was still hanged without a hundred percent check that he might not have full consciousness of what he did. After reading his Interview I got to know that he wanted to write the “true account” of a murder case. Truman Capote wanted to show both sides of the murder case. This is also connected to his thesis which is that the capital punishment is unjust. Presented by the unfair trial to be hanged and the actual event of hanging as being cold, distant and heartless.
He will be on permanent vacation”. But after looking into this a bit I found the long sentencing guarantees that he will be locked up in a prison right along with other dangerous criminals. Now objectors will say that he doesn’t deserve this type of prison because his crime was of money and not a dangerous crime against someone. My response to this simple. When a person murders someone else that murderer destroys the victim’s family’s lives.
Now it’s ironic how they were great friends and companions towards each other, however Macbeth is the one who ultimately kills Banquo without even laying a finger on him. Macbeth’s guilt from Duncan’s murder carried on in Macbeth’s life, as he was too scared to fight off this darkness. Now Macbeth was faced with a decision whether or not to murder Banquo to keep his royal prophecies true. With the help of his gang, the decision was clear enough for him not to pass. Instead of Macbeth directly killing Banquo, Macbeth hired his gang members to act out this murder.
Macbeth quotes, “will it not be received/ When we have mark’d with blood those sleepy two/ Of his own chamber and used their very daggers/ That they have done’t? (1.7.75-79), stating that blood is beginning to literally represent guilt, rather then symbolically. By killing Duncan with the guard’s weapons and then smearing blood all over them, Macbeth is framing them, making them guilty by using Duncan’s blood. This quote also depicts Macbeth’s transition from a morally correct ruler to a corrupt and vicious murderer. Before hearing the witch’s prophecy, he was a virtuous and ethical person, but after hearing that he is destined for kingship, he goes on a murderous rampage to gain political power, completely disregarding his previous decency.