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Is Abelard Listening To His Master A Sin?

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According to Abelard, the servant killing his master was a sin. Does the fact that a servant killed his master make the situation even worse? In those times, servants were the ones who were supposed to listen to their masters. Even though the master was enraged with anger, does that still give any leverage to the servant to run, then kill him? I feel as if the servant is already in the wrong before he runs away. Would Abelard consider it a sin for the servant to not listen to his master? For example, if a child doesn’t listen to their parents then Abelard would consider that a sin. So, does that make a servant not listening to their master a sin? Before the killing, the servant was already committing a sin by not listening to his master. Abelard …show more content…

Kasachkoff stated, “it is morally permissible to kill another in self-defense by another posing a lethal threat to us, a person has forfeited his right not to be killed, and in forfeiting their right not to be killed he has made himself an exception to be killed,” (Kasachkoff, 7). To Abelard, this is true. To many this is true. If a threat is shown that our life is on the line, it is permissible to kill. The death of the other person is not the aim of most that kill in self-defense. Even though the death is, “anticipated and foreseen,” (Kasachkoff, 3) it is not the intent that the person wanted. It is clear that the person wanted to continue to live. It is a common morality that no one expects you to sacrifice your own life versus a chance at killing your attacker. I could see sacrificing your own life for someone else based on the situation, but if someone is attacking you, most will take the life of the other person instead of their own life. A situation that would be an easy choice for most people, is choosing your life or the others. For example, you are being held captive, but you have the power of having a gun. The aggressor says you can either kill yourself or him to escape. Almost all would kill the threat, but would that be considered a sin? Abelard would consider this a sin, because you had a choice, but chose to kill instead of suicide. Since this would technically …show more content…

A master has more than one servant and higher authority that would be pretty upset about the killing. I sense that someone would want revenge for the killing of their master. For example, your boss, whom you are close with, is murdered by another colleague. Someone will go out of their way to get back at the person who perpetrated someone that they enjoy having in their life. Even with all these scenarios on the line, the servant still does what he did to save alive in the moment. Another question I have is what did the servant do that made the master so angry and aggressive in the first

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