Assignment 6 - Rob Gilligan - How to know what is right

In my opinion, some of the most stimulating questions often do not have a correct answer. What I mean is that moral questions result in interesting arguments. To cite a real life example, years ago Oscar Pistorious shot his girlfriend in their home. Pistorious is a well known Olympic athlete who is missing both of his legs from below the knee. His girlfriend sneaked into his home to surprise him on valentines day. Pistorious felt very vulnerable, and claims he shot whom he believed to be an intruder in his home. With that said: should Pistorious be charged with murder? Without providing a long winded explanation, I'll answer the question saying he should. Questions like these, I believe, stimulate complex thinking, challenge beliefs, and force people to evaluate where their opinions stand. Exercises like this remain far more intriguing than memorizing formulas in math, or learning who the last emperor of Rome was. This is why I always enjoy when we have Arts and Humanities at the beginning of your class. We are usually provided with a prompt that is similar to ones like these.