Committing a heinous crime, such as murdering someone, is justifiable, depending on the situation. In the book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, George Milton faces an ethical dilemma, that changes the lives of him and his friend, Lennie, that has no right or wrong answer. George Milton and Lennie Smalls, who is mentally disabled, travel together, state to state, in search of work. Oftentimes the dyad eluded cities because of Lennie’s unethical behavior, which caused George to make a distressing decision. At the ranch that George and Lennie were working, Lennie had strangled and killed Curley’s wife. George had made the difficult decision to end Lennie’s life in a peaceful manner. A multitude of people, who have a strict interpretation
