Murder Is Morally Wrong

Thank you for your attentiveness in this manner. Ladies and gentlemen, there is a difference between being morally justified and morally wrong. Dudley and Stephens are here today because they must face a trial for the charge of murder. These two men acknowledged that they did indeed kill an innocent boy while stranded on a lifeboat without food or water, but does this make murder justifiable? I want you, as the jury, to pause and ask yourself, is murdering an innocent boy morally correct in any circumstance? We will truly never understand the temptation Dudley and Stephens faced, but was murder the moral thing to do? These men are evidently guilty of murder while applying moral understanding and common law.

Law and morality must have some relationship to justify its compulsory power or there would be no right answer to any crimes committed. People make laws according to their beliefs of right and wrong. Laws either have the

It can, but not in this case unless the killing was justified by what has been called necessity. The temptation to the act, which existed here, was not what the law has ever called necessity or nor will it ever be. Also, consider that Dudley and Stephens chose to kill the boy because he was “sickly and did not have a family like they did, so they decided that rather than sacrifice the life of a healthy grown man with a family.” This is a nonsense statement. Any human being should not have to qualify for the title of being a “person”; every one has the right to live no matter their health, background, or social status. Furthermore, the location of an innocent person, or the characteristics of an innocent person, such as dependence on another human for survival or inability to do certain activities should not justify a