Strengths And Weaknesses Of Reason Analysis

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What are the strengths and weaknesses of reason as a way of knowing?

A reason can be a cause, explanation, or justification for an action or events it also can be a power of the mind to think, and help as to understand the world in a different ways and can draw quit fair judgements form it, by using different tacking like logically

As we all know reason has it own strengths and weaknesses. one weaknesses could be the question of moral, what is right or wrong ,what is right for me might be wrong for others. For example lets say you are an eyewitness to a crime. The crime was a man has robbed a bank, lot of money but instead of keeping the money for himself he donates it to a poor orphanage that can now afford to feed,clothe and care for its children You know who committed the crime. If you go to the authorities with the all information you got, there is a good chance the money will be returned to the bank,you will get some commission for the job you did and leaving a lot of kids in need. What do you do? Turn the robber in to the authorities and get your commission or say nothing since the money went to what you deem a good cause. On this kind of situation using reasoning is weaknesses. Yes ! robbing a bank is breaking a low which is wrong however helping poor orphanage for affording they clothe,feed and there children is not wrong so what is the reason to turn the robber in to the authorities?