Imagine your family has a dog and you had that dog for 5 years. One day it ran away and got hit by a car. The vet said you dog would live, but would be paralyzed from the waist down and would have brain damage. Your family has to make a heart wrenching decision in either, letting you dog live in agony, or putting it down. Your family decided to put the dog down, so it didn’t have to live an unfortunate life. In cases like assisted suicide, euthanasia, and in the case of George and Lennie, killing is a justifiable act.
In the case of euthanasia, killing is a justifiable act. For example “Shelters who cram more animals into cages with unsafe numbers, become so crowded that the dogs fight and injure themselves. Cats contract upper respiratory infection and disease outbreaks from dogs and cats sicken healthy animals” (Newkirk). These evidence proves that killing is justifiable because all shelters have to limit how many animals they have and if they have too many animals, then they need to euthanize some animals so no animals get, injured, sick, …show more content…
For example “‘Curley’s gonna want to shoot him. Curley’s still mad about his hand. And suppose they lock him up and strap him down and put him in a cage. That ain’t no good George’ Slim said ‘I know’ George said”(Steinbeck 97). This proves that if George didn’t kill lennie, than Curley would make sure Lennie died a miserable death, by being tortured and locked up. For the next example Steinbeck states “‘George gonna give me heck.’ ‘George gonna wish he was alone and not have me botherin’ him.’ ‘I can go right off there and find a cave, and never have no ketchup-butt I won’t care.’ ‘ If George doesn't want me to…I’ll go away...I’ll go away’” (Steinbeck 100). This is important because Lennie offered to leave, but george cared too much to have Lennie suffer on his own. So George did the right thing by by killing Lennie so he didn’t have to suffer through his
In the case of euthanasia, killing is a justifiable act. For example “Shelters who cram more animals into cages with unsafe numbers, become so crowded that the dogs fight and injure themselves. Cats contract upper respiratory infection and disease outbreaks from dogs and cats sicken healthy animals” (Newkirk). These evidence proves that killing is justifiable because all shelters have to limit how many animals they have and if they have too many animals, then they need to euthanize some animals so no animals get, injured, sick, …show more content…
For example “‘Curley’s gonna want to shoot him. Curley’s still mad about his hand. And suppose they lock him up and strap him down and put him in a cage. That ain’t no good George’ Slim said ‘I know’ George said”(Steinbeck 97). This proves that if George didn’t kill lennie, than Curley would make sure Lennie died a miserable death, by being tortured and locked up. For the next example Steinbeck states “‘George gonna give me heck.’ ‘George gonna wish he was alone and not have me botherin’ him.’ ‘I can go right off there and find a cave, and never have no ketchup-butt I won’t care.’ ‘ If George doesn't want me to…I’ll go away...I’ll go away’” (Steinbeck 100). This is important because Lennie offered to leave, but george cared too much to have Lennie suffer on his own. So George did the right thing by by killing Lennie so he didn’t have to suffer through his