Daily Blog Day 5 – Monday, March 21, 2011
Question: Do you think Caesar's killers were justified in their actions?
Julius Caesar was assassinated ending his life and his rule. In my mind, killing anyone is not okay. Personally, I feel like arguments and political disputes in like this in history could have been solved in other less violent ways; although, I do have to remember the time period this took place in. At that time, it may have been a reasonable thing to do if Caesar in fact was getting out of hand. We, now many centuries removed, may not make that distinction, but we can definitely try. People at that time may have felt that he was out of control and needed to be stopped. If this was so, as much as the act of killing is never justified, the reasons behind their actions may be. Therefore, if you look at it from the time period that this took place and imagine that killing is okay and not a sin, Julius Caesar’s killers can be justified if you can give enough evidence that Caesar was not capable or able to properly do his job without becoming a threat towards Rome and the citizens who lived there. Also, it is said that Caesar was warned more than once that he would be assassinated, and he ignored them. People also claim that he thought everybody loved him. This may have been part of why he might deserve to be killed. He was to vain and arrogant to realize that he might have enemies who could affect him. Being stabbed twenty four times though should have made that apparent to him shortly before he died. This vanity though is not in my opinion enough to kill a man, but for this question it is not a clear or straight line. It is up to you to assess your virtues, character, and value in order to decide for yourself. Do not take my word for it. Maybe he did deserve what he had coming to him, but to me it is simply wrong to kill in a situation that could have been handled differently. I was not there. I did not know Caesar, but that was not a just way for anything to be handled.
I especially like your reasoning and insight on why you think that Caesar's killers were not justified. Below are some link involving Caesar.
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Hope, you did a great job thinking about how things were for the conspirators who planned Julius Caesar's assassination. Here are two other websites that could give you some more information about it http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/caesar2.htm, http://www.unrv.com/fall-republic/death-of-caesar.php.
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