why was the boston massacre justified?
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Adams was successful in proving the soldiers fired in self-defense. The soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre were proven innocent. “Adam proved that the soldiers fired in self-defense”. ... “Adams said, the killing were justified and blamed the violence of the immigrant Patrick Carr and Crispus Attucks”.
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A consequentialist would say that killing X is justified because it would result in only 1 person dying, rather than 10 people dying. A non-consequentialist would say it is inherently wrong to murder people and refuse to kill X, even though not killing X leads to the death of 9 more people than killing X.
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The Boston Massacre is considered by many historians to be the first battle of the Revolutionary War. ... The massacre resulted in the death of five colonists. British troops in the Massachusetts Bay Colony were there to stop demonstrations against the Townshend Acts and keep order, but instead they provoked outrage.
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John Hancock's Boston Massacre Oration. In 1774, John Hancock, a wealthy Boston merchant, was chosen to deliver the third annual oration to commemorate the Boston Massacre. Hancock warned his fellow colonists about British attacks on American liberties and urged them to stand firm in defense of their rights.
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Limited funds that could be used to prevent and solve crime (and provide education and jobs) are spent on capital punishment. Opposing the death penalty does not indicate a lack of sympathy for murder victims. On the contrary, murder demonstrates a lack of respect for human life.
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The death penalty is also unjust because it is sometimes inflicted on innocent people. Since 1900, 350 people have been wrongly convicted of homicide or capital rape. The death penalty makes it impossible to remedy any such mistakes.
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Deterrence. Capital punishment is often justified with the argument that by executing convicted murderers, we will deter would-be murderers from killing people.
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The main reason given for America's decision to take atomic action is that it was a way to conclude the war without suffering further losses (on the American side at least). There are also those who see the attacks as retribution for Pearl Harbour and the many American lives lost in bloody warfare with Japan.
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['The Stamp Act (March 1765) ... ', 'The Townshend Acts (June-July 1767) ... ', 'The Boston Massacre (March 1770) ... ', 'The Boston Tea Party (December 1773) ... ', 'The Coercive Acts (March-June 1774) ... ', 'Lexington and Concord (April 1775)']
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The Sons of Liberty were a citizens' group that was organized in all cities in the American colonies to protest the Stamp Act in the 1760's. ... Though it was no more than a riot, Americans named it the Boston Massacre to show everyone the dangers of having troops stationed among colonists.
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A major incident took place in 1770. This was the Boston Massacre, which involved the killing of five American colonists by British soldiers. The 'Bloody Massacre' was used as an effective propaganda tool for the independence movement. More taxes and acts were passed, like the Stamp Act (1765) and the Tea Act (1773).
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He was a coward. He wasn't evil for shooting the guy they had set free at the end. He just became pragmatic about things. And it was probably trying to relieve some of the guilt for being such a puss while his friend died earlier.
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After Massachusetts Governor Thomas Hutchinson refused, Patriot leader Samuel Adams organized the “tea party” with about 60 members of the Sons of Liberty, his underground resistance group. The British tea dumped in Boston Harbor on the night of December 16 was valued at some $18,000.
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In the United States, capital punishment has existed since the founding of the original colonies, and was utilized for a large number of crimes including burglary, murder, treason, counterfeiting, and arson. Outside of the law, lynch mobs often formed to bring the accused to justice.
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The Boston Massacre. Coined the “Fatal Fifth of March,” the massacre was used as propaganda by patriots to bring people to their side against British tyranny. The use of it as propaganda caused the Boston Massacre to stand out against the many events that led to the American Revolution.
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Paul Revere produced the engraving shown here of the Boston Massacre. It was used as propaganda (something used to help or harm a cause or individual) to demand the removal of British troops from Boston.
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It is clear that with this book Camus fails to prove what he intend. When the murder happens we already know that Meursault is essentially innocent. If the murder is an accident, the sentence is unjust but not a necessary result of Meursault's authentic innocence. If it is a real murder, he deserves his sentence.