Final Essay-reconsider this lobster
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Many authors bring up moral questions, just a David Foster Wallace introduces the question as to how moral the process of boiling lobsters alive really is. Along with Wallace, Herzog presents many points that make people wonder how moral keeping pets is, how moral leather shoes are, and how moral eating meat is. He highlights some very intriguing arguments, but most importantly he describes what it is like to be within the “middle zone”. This middle zone is where many people find themselves stuck, looking for answers to moral questions that they do not quite need the answers to.
Authors like Herzog, Wallace, Pollon and Mitford all provide very interesting moral arguments within their perspective essays. All the topics covered are fairly different, yet they all manage to connect in a far out way. The morality of eating animals, to the morality of sending a deceased loved one to be embalmed and lowered into the ground in an expensive casket come back to join each other in the debate of the human condition. Why do humans do this? Most definitely it is because humans are by nature individualistic, as survival of the fittest has always been the subliminal instinct. Humans need meat in order to get the proper proteins, however there are those who go vegetarian who avoid meat at all costs. Some find this transition to take too much willpower, as the amount of ex vegetarians far outnumbers the current vegaetarian populationI(see Herzog article).
Morality is a major theme throughout these essays and is confined to the minds of the human race. Morality is strictly a human problem, as animals are not wired to think morally. Humans do not rely on natural instinct to make decisions, but lean on morality to help justify a decision. For example, the moral question in Wallace’s essay is fact that lobsters are being boiled alive in a pot for human consumption. Furthermore, there is the idea of feeding euthanized kittens to a python in Herzog’s moral dilemma. The lobster dilemma helps to illustrate the individualistic outlook that humanity has cherished. People look directly at that pleasure they receive from eating the lobster, rather than the untimely death that the lobster meets in the boiling pot. This individualistic outlook is portrayed in many other moral dilemma that are brought up by Herzog, Wallace, (other authors). the individualism connects directly with frenaksenstein((((((((((((((((((((. The embalming essay outlines the steps taken to ready a body for a funeral, which takes a dead body, and makes it into an almost lively figure. The skin is brightened(insert quote). The immediate reaction I had to this passage was a connection the Dr. Frankenstein and his creation. (explain) I had a second connection to this idea while reading Herzog’s essay, when he talked about the different dog breeds. PEople have bred dogs to bring out the most desirable traits, regardless of the health consequences in the long term. The dogs are bred in order to be sold, and many are bought at high prices. Breeders see the profits, rather than the ill effects of inbreeding, such as in the English bulldog, as they can drop dead from cardiac arrest due to their oversized heads.
