Friday, April 26, 2013

"Well Its Not My Fault' - Every Kid Ever

      In the novel Frankenstein, Victor feels at fault for his role in the murder of William by The Creature.  He feels this way due to the fact that The Creature was of his creation.  This is a difficult situation to determine who is at fault. It is made even more difficult as Justine is blamed for the murder and put to death. This shows how determining who is at fault is often harder than previously thought.  
      Say, for example, that random stranger lones his broken airplane to his brother without warning him that the engine stalls at unknown increments while flying.  The end result in this situation is that his brother crashes the plane into a cliff and must climb to the top to survive.  That is all fine and dandy, but who is at fault? The brother crashed the plane, but random stranger knew the plane was broken.  In such a terrible situation as the one stated above, I believe that random stranger was at fault because he was fully aware of the consequences of allowing his brother to drive his plane.

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