Can't Say I'll Miss Doing These Every Month...

So it's finally time for our last monthly blog and at first, I had no idea what to write about. So, after some thinking, I decided to write about murder. More specifically, the reasons that we as society find acceptable for murder. In The Tell Tale Heart, the narrator claims that he killed the old man because of his eye. However, we the readers are convinced that this guy is insane. If he was on trial today, would we say that this man was guilty? Or innocent because of his mental state? What if this person was famous? Would we find them guilty then? Today, it seems like if you have the connections, you can get away with anything. Look at the OJ Trial. He was famous, he had connections. And he got away with murder("allegedly"). If someone was murdering someone because they threatened to kill that person's child, they probably wouldn't be found guilty. Because they were doing it for protection. The reasons behind killing someone is the main factor for whether they are found guilty or not. There could be evidence to prove that a person no doubt committed a murder. But, if they have a good reason for doing it, everything's ok. It makes me think of the musical/movie Chicago. One of my favorite songs in that movie is "He Had It Coming." I don't know if you've seen that movie but it's basically a song that the women sing about how the men that they killed "had it coming." We don't find out the result of all the women's trials, but we do find out that Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly are both found innocent for the murders that they committed. Society always preaches that murdering someone is wrong, but if you do it for the right reasons, it's prefectly ok. So, if you ever have to kill someone, make sure you have a good reason for doing it, unlike the narrator in The Tell Tale Heart.