Mencken, just like I do, believes that capital punishment is good in every way, and he can argue his points with great detail. In the article he points out two reasons why many people are against capital punishment. He continues through the article by defending why people should be for capital punishment. The first point against capital punishment is that the work of the hangman is unpleasant (Mencken 145). But in defense, Mencken states that many jobs are unpleasant, which is so.
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.
With reference to Singer’s statement that, “… prevent evil… without sacrificing something of comparable moral significance”, in as much as the act of helping a friend who is suffering in a critical condition is morally good, in contrast, it is morally wrong to rob people at gun point. It would be sacrificing something of comparable moral significance for another. In other words, it is wrong to do a wrong action because of a right one. Singer also emphasizes the fact that you must be in the position to help. I think is a plausible idea since you cannot give what you do not have.
He beat his fist softly on his knee. Again Jem is annoyed; he begins to let his anger out though when he talks to Atticus about the situation. He shows his anger by punching his knee with his fist. “Judge Taylor was polling the jury: "Guilty... guilty... guilty... guilty..." I peeked at Jem: his hands were white from gripping the balcony rail, and his shoulders jerked as if each "guilty" was a separate stab between them.” Jem is so angry at the verdict of Tom Robinson in the courtroom that his hands become almost white from gripping the balcony rail so hard. If this trial had of taken place much closer to the start of the book when Jem was a bit younger, Jem wouldn’t have understood most of the trial therefore not growing up and acting an adult as quickly as he did after the trial had been
Billy Budd Dialectical Journal Important Symbols/Quotes “Billy in many respects was little more than an upright barbarian.” “Making a salutation as to the ship herself, “And good-bye to you to, old Rights-of-Man.” “There was just one thing amiss in him. No visible blemish indeed, but an occasional liability to a vocal defect.” “And for my life, ‘tis the king’s!” “Wholly there to avoid even the sight of an aggravating object on must needs give it Jonah’s toss or jump overboard himself.” “To pass from a normal nature to him one must cross “the deadly space between.” What they represent The author portraying Billy as a very innocent and morally correct sailor. It is symbolic in the fact that he really is saying good bye to his rights as he is taken from his old ship to a new one without him having a say in it. Though Billy has a great physical appearance he has one blemish. And that is his speech impediment.
It is evident when he and his men were instructed by Captain Leather to go to the crater. Robert tried to explain to his captain the dangers of going to the crater but Captain Leather didn’t bother to hear his opinion and said “Just so...” (Findley 129) Being a lower ranked soldier, Robert followed the orders and did what was told whether he considered it iniquitous. Robert’s obedience was first seen when he was put in charge to kill the wounded horse, he hesitated at first then eventually dealt with the difficulty of killing it. The tasks given to Robert caused his violent side to emerge. In the beginning, it was apparent that Robert couldn’t harm anyone, even a rabbit and “Robert had never aimed a gun at anything.”(Findley 24) As the story proceeded, Robert was then aware of the war and learned how to kill.
Andy & Harry’s Case To start with, Andy was making loud and insulting remarks towards Harry which basically started all this. In reality, you have to touch someone to get charged with assault, if you put someone through some sort of fear, this is known as assault which Andy might get charged for. However, the court is going to analyse what Andy has against homosexual people as he was going against Harry and his boyfriend. An example of someone getting assaulted without getting touched is Ireland (1997) when a man kept ringing a woman’s house on a daily basis. The woman was scared, paranoid and she later became depressed.
Social background, personalities and beliefs influence the way individuals think. The 3rd Juror was a vengeful and aggressive man who is the last juror to change his vote to not guilty. At the end of ACT I, when he yells angrily at the 8th Juror ‘I’ll kill him, I’ll kill him’, the 8th Juror says ‘you don’t really mean you’ll kill me, do you?’ This conflict contributes to a major turning point because it brings closer to a unanimous ‘just verdict’ as other jurors learnt about flaws from strongly prejudiced people, like the 3rd juror. He contradicts himself by saying ‘Anybody says a thing like that…they mean it’ earlier in ACT 1 because he struggles to detach his personal feelings from the boy as he sees his own estranged son in the 16 years old defendant. Furthermore, the 10th Juror’s angry monologue at the end of ACT II, he demonizes people who are ‘different’.
Ender’s excellence brings a lot of torture for him when Stilson wants to overrule him, Bernard frustrates him and Graff uses his sister to break Ender down emotionally. To begin with, Stilson wants to hurt Ender because he thinks he was excellent if his monitor and which is taken off. “Oh, gonna fight me huh? Gonna fight me, Thirde?” (Card 7). In this quote, Stilson shows anger toward Ender who deliberately creates a situation to hurt Ender.
In this speech Colonel Sheburn attacks the cowardice of the mob, for they don’t have the courage to attack him one on one. In this scene Twain Depicts how people behave more drastically when they can hide behind a crowd. Also, in another scene the King and the Duke are impersonating the Wilkes brothers, so they can receive money from Peter Wilkse will, but the real Wilkes brothers end up showing up. The whole crowd starts to get exited yelling things “like, Le’s duck’ em! Le’s drown’ em!