“You killed him to avenge us, only a woman could avenge the women, said the girl with the dark glasses, and revenge, being just, is something human, if the victim has no rights over the wrong-doer then there can be no justice, Nor humanity.”
This quote kind of relates back to the question that Kyle asked, is it okay to kill. The doctor’s wife killed the leader of the rouges as revenge for the pain they caused the women in the asylum. The quote states that revenge is just, naturally human, and without it humanity does not exist. I agree with doctor’s wife decision to kill the leader of the rouges because he inflicted horrible pain on the women for his own gain. He was starving the people in the asylum and their continued survival depended on his death. In this situation is seems just, but I do not think that it is in many other situations. Going back to revenge, I do not think that simply killing someone, or hurting him or her in some fashion, for the actions they have committed makes humanity. I think that is causes us to be less human; we should be able to rise above the brutality of others. When someone kills a killer, they are not condoning the murder; they are in fact supporting murder. This brings the one who kills the killer down to the originals killer’s level of morals. One should strive to be the bigger person and condone murder in the first place.
One thing that I want to clarify is that I think people should have to live with the consequences of their actions but revenge should not be those consequences. The leader of the rouges starved people and raped many women and the consequences of his actions should have reflected so. His death seemed appropriate because there was no other way to punish him. In our society, a murderer is put on trial and they know what the consequences of their actions could be. Going back to my other point, when courts sentence criminals to death, they are supporting murder and the wishes of many criminals (many wish to die after they have committed a violent crime to escape taking consequences of their actions). Allowing them to live but in jail forces them to live with what they did everyday and, to me, that seems worse than death.
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What was interesting to me was the fact that after the doctor’s wife killed the leader rogue one of the blind men said that they should find the person who committed the murder and turn them in. The man wanted justice for the action that the doctor’s wife committed. I found this interesting because after the rogues deprived the other blind people from food and their personal belongings and raped the women, the first response for justice is when the rogue leader is murdered. I just find it weird that the only part considered unjust is when the rogue leader is murdered, even though it was for the sake of everyone else.
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