“An IQ score of 70 or below is considered low” (Reference.com). If a person’s IQ is extremely low and they do not always understand the consequences of their actions, should they be held accountable? In extreme cases, is killing ever justified? If a person’s IQ is extremely low and they do not always understand the consequences of their actions, should they be held accountable? Yes, because if a person with A IQ is not held accountable for their actions then they will not learn from their mistakes and they will just keep doing it because they do not know any better. In extreme cases should killing ever be justified? Yes, because if someone with A IQ under 70 kills someone then someone who cares about them helps out by killing them so they
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“Well, he seen this girl in a red dress. Dumb bas**** like he is, he wants to touch everything he likes. Just wants to feel it. So he reaches out to feel this red dress and the girl lets out a squawk, and that gets Lennie all mixed up, and he holds on’ cause that’s the only thing he can think to do” (Steinbeck 41). So in conclusion George was scared that Lennie would keep screwing up, so he had to shoot him. Georg e knows that Lennie would just get in trouble again because of what happened in Weed and Soledad. 2nd George realized that their dream would never come true. “I think I knowed from the very first. I think I knowed we’d never do her. He usual like to hear about it so much I got to thinking maybe we would” (94). George wants a better life for himself but finally expected that the dream will never come true. 3rd George was the only person who really cared about Lennie. “I socked him over the head with a fence picket to make him let go” (41). George is the only one who cares about Lennie and the reason you can tell is because they have known each other from a young age and they now travel around together as migrant works. Also if George did not care about Lennie he would have just left himself instead of trying to help Lennie escape and risk his own life for
“Well, he seen this girl in a red dress. Dumb bas**** like he is, he wants to touch everything he likes. Just wants to feel it. So he reaches out to feel this red dress and the girl lets out a squawk, and that gets Lennie all mixed up, and he holds on’ cause that’s the only thing he can think to do” (Steinbeck 41). So in conclusion George was scared that Lennie would keep screwing up, so he had to shoot him. Georg e knows that Lennie would just get in trouble again because of what happened in Weed and Soledad. 2nd George realized that their dream would never come true. “I think I knowed from the very first. I think I knowed we’d never do her. He usual like to hear about it so much I got to thinking maybe we would” (94). George wants a better life for himself but finally expected that the dream will never come true. 3rd George was the only person who really cared about Lennie. “I socked him over the head with a fence picket to make him let go” (41). George is the only one who cares about Lennie and the reason you can tell is because they have known each other from a young age and they now travel around together as migrant works. Also if George did not care about Lennie he would have just left himself instead of trying to help Lennie escape and risk his own life for