Wednesday 14 October 2009
George shoots Lennie is wrong
In the last chapter of John Steinbeck's novel, Mice and Men, present a killing of Lennie by George. This issue become as controversial, there are also have good and bad consequence. although killing Lennie it is a good way to stop him to kill other people but that is morally wrong.
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If you think that it was morally wrong for George to shoot Lennie, what other course of action could George have done?
ReplyDeleteIf Curley caught Lennie, Curley was going to shoot Lennie in the stomach so that he died slowly and in a lot of pain. Do you think that is better than George shooting Lennie painlessly?
What else could George have done that was better than shooting Lennie?
Do you think that killing people is always morally wrong? That would mean you think that when soldiers shoot their enemies in war that it is morally wrong. It would mean you think that when the Thai government shoots murderers that the government is morally wrong. Is this what you think?
I think that George shot Lennie because he loved him and wanted to do the best thing for his friend. Every other choice was worse for Lennie.
I agree with you that it is morally wrong to kill people. But some do you think it is good for people not to kill the guilty? Why are you think it morally wrong to do that? I think George just don't want Lennie dead with a lot of pain. I think it right.
ReplyDeleteAlina seems to agree with me.
ReplyDeleteHow about everyone else?
I liked Tan's original post because it clearly states the controversy and gives his opinion on it. But I also disagree with his opinion. That's OK, Tan, and everyone else, can add new comments below to explain why they think that Alina and I are wrong.
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I think we learned a lot of background about what in Gorge mind so it influence we to agree what Gorge desired. However, in real life, we cannot know exactly what in people mind; may be some murder we saw in news paper did like what George had done. It is so complicate to judge whether it is morally wrong or not.
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