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Hello my esteemed fellow citizens. Do we consider ourselves to be members of a fair, a civilized society? I would hope that the answer would be yes. Are the citizens of our community willing and able to do what is right even when what is right may not be a popular decision? Our community has offered a monetary reward for the murder of a tyrant. However, now that the tyrant is dead there is a dispute as to whether or not the community should pay the monetary reward to the intruder who ultimately was the catalyst to the demise of the tyrant's death. Let’s ask ourselves what we would like to see as the final outcome if we ourselves were in this very predicament. So what do we know? We know that the community offered …show more content…
As such, allow me to present to you the other possibilities of a fair and just decision regarding the matter of whether or not the intruder should receive the reward money. The requirements for how the intruder should be killed in order to receive the monetary reward were not specific was it? The intruder did kill the tyrant’s son which led to the tyrant committing suicide, correct? So one could truthfully say that it is because the intruder killed the tyrant's son that the tyrant is now dead. Would this be a true statement? I am glad we all agree on this fact. So my next question is, who can produce a document which specifically states that when attempting to kill the tyrant you must specifically do it with your own bare hands that it was not acceptable to get the job done by any means necessary? No such document exists because during a time a high stress, during a time of fear for the community we did not care about the specific we just want one of our civilized citizens to help rid our community of the threat if at all possible. Now here we are after the threat has been eliminated, attempting renege on a request to kill the communities tyrant which was carried out with the most basic of instructions. The end result is exactly what our community asked for, how can we find fault with a hero’s actions. Why should we call his heroic actions into question when we basically asked him to put his life on the life for his community? Ask yourselves one question, do we know why the intruder killed the tyrant's son? Do we know that the tyrant's son was an innocent victim? No, we do not. How do we know that the tyrant's son wouldn’t have grown up to be just like his father, we would then have two tyrants to deal with? Our faithful citizen who loves his community may have saved us from double trouble. Allow me to conclude by saying that the intruder was asked

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