Killing Is Not Always A Sin
Killing is very wrong and is considered a very bad sin...or is it? Sometimes killing is apart of life, and people have no choice but to kill for their own survival. When someone commits the act of murder out of jealousy, or out of pure fun, then killing is wrong. Sometimes a person has no choice in whether to kill or not, like for instance -protection or even it could be someone's duty. In the stories "A Horseman In the Sky" by Ambrose Bierce, and "Ambush" by Tim O'Brien two young men have to kill someone,because it is both for protection also because it is their duty. Both stories way of killing is understandable, and in a sense right. (Compared to killing for fun, which is wrong.) In the story "A Horseman In the Sky" by Ambrose Bierce, A young man named Carter Druse is on the duty of being the lookout for the Union in the Civil War. HIs job is to either kill any spies or to warn them if the Confederate is coming. While Druse was on the lookout, he slowly fell asleep. When he awakes he sees a man looking off the cliff. The man was completely unaware of Druse. Druse notic
es that the man on the horse is from the Confederate side, so Druse follows his orders, and prepares to shoot this man before he takes notice of him or the other man. Druse then struggles tremendously to shoot him. He has never killed someone before, and to kill someone he doesn't even know, is very hard for him. So he decided he didn't even want to shoot and would rather just scare him off. That way he wouldn't have to feel guilty for taking some unknown man's life away. Right before Druse fires, the man turns around and suddenly thing become more complicated. Druse now realizes the man he was about to shoot was his own father. Knowing this, things become more difficult, but Druse remembers what his dad said right before they were separated. His dad told him to always follow his commands and carry out his orders. This lets Druse know that his father probably wouldn't care as much that he shot him, as long as it was part of his duty. With his father's words in Druse's mind, he pulls the trigger.His shot hits the horse, which he wanted, in attempt to scare of the rider. Instead the horse panics and jumps off the
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