The Lottery Questions
- In my opinion, the Lottery was a collective act of murder, and for a few reasons. For one, I think that the majority of the people present, especially the adults, knew exactly what was going on. Whether they knew if it was immoral or not is another matter, but I sitll do believe that they knew what they were doing, and the consequences which came from doing so. Also, I think that just the simple fact that they all worked together towards the same goal - killing Mrs. Hutchinson - makes it a collective murder, as the name would imply.
- I think that what the people in the Lottery was not morally justified, just because of the fact that killing isn't right. That said, I still think that in their society, it would've been, as they were brought up that way, and had seen it happen again and again. This tradition would have become so normal for them that they wouldn't have had second thoughts about it. In our socity, though, things are different. What they did, in my eyes, and from what I see as right and wrong, was still very immoral.
- I don't that that just tradition alone is enough to justify what the people in the Lottery did to Mrs. Hutchinson. EVen though it may have been what they were ued to, and maybe they didn't even see anything wrong with it, but that is still no excuse for taking something from somebody which wasn't theirs to take. From the way I see it, the only reason they still did the lottery was because they had done so for so long that they didn't want to even know what would happen if they took a chance and didn't do it.